Nokia brings more legal complaints against Apple

Well, you can't say the company isn't persistent. Nokia has already sued Apple over GSM patents, and last week Nokia filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission, which asked the commission to ban the import of Apple mobile products including the MacBook, iPhone and iPods.

Now, our sister site, Engadget reports Nokia has filed another federal complaint against Apple, alleging that Curpertino is violating 7 more Nokia Patents. Nokia says these violations are all implementation patents, or features that differentiate Nokia products from the rest of the market.

Nokia claims that the infringing technologies are present in the iPhone 3G, 3GS, iPod touch, iPod Nano and Classic, as well as the Mac Pro, the Mac Mini, the MacBook and the MacBook Air.

Whew! Nokia wants a jury trial, and an injunction against Apple for allegedly violating the patents.

Not to be outdone, Apple is already counter-suing Nokia from its earlier suits, claiming essentially that Nokia missed the boat on updating mobile phone technology and wants access to Apple patents, while slowing Apple growth.

The big winners in all this will likely be the lawyers. Keep watching this space. We're following all the bloody details.

[Via Engadget]

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Gordon Werner

the crux of the matter is that Nokia made many of it's patents available for low, flat royalty rates in order for their tech to be adopted by the industry ... that is fine and how things usually work. However, they want more money from apple because apple makes more money ... which I don't believe is enforceable ... based on how their royalty agreements are written ... Apple said no we'll pay what everyone else is paying ... and NOkia got mad.

Of course this is all sour grapes from a firm that was once at the top of the market and who completely missed the ball when it came to smart phones

January 04 2010 at 7:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

BenY

This is all so civilized. In the old days Finland would just declare war on California. Corporations have taken all the fun out of multinational disputes.

January 04 2010 at 5:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Matt Jones

If anybody needed an example of a stupid software patent, check out #6262735, cited by Nokia as being infringed by basically everything Apple sells.

The short form: it's a patent on recognizing that something you've clicked on might be an actionable data item (URL, phone number, etc) and offering the option to "do something" with it. FFS, this is Computer Science 101 stuff.

January 04 2010 at 4:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Joe

Just to be clear, at the International Trade Commission you are entitled to a hearing before an administrative law judge, not a jury trial.

The trial could come from the federal complaint.

January 04 2010 at 4:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply