News - Nokia files another ITC complaint against Apple

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Finnish handset maker has filed another complaint against Apple for infringing seven of its patents.

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[aidanjt]

I hope Nokia doesn't turn into a mobile SCO.

[[GSV]Trig]

The statement also noted that over the last two decades, Nokia has nearly invested approximately EUR 43 billion in research and development.

And they have what to show for it?
I'd be interested in where that money went rather than trying to out-patent Apple..
Wonder if any of this has anything to do with Microsoft..

[crossy]

In 2010, Nokia filed cases on the same patents and others in Delaware, US and has further cases proceeding in Mannheim, Dusseldorf and the Federal Patent Court in Germany, the UK High Court in London and the District Court of the Hague in the Netherlands, some of which will come to trial in the next few months.

Am I being naive, but surely if an ITC judge has already ruled in Apple's favour then surely that's a precedent - in which case the other filings will fail?

As much as I like Nokia (or at least I did before they became a division of Microsoft) this latest load of legal does seem a little vindictive. But then again, Apple's not exactly free from the accusation of legal blunderbussing, in which case maybe this is an attempt at natural justice?

[Grebowski]

Am I being naive, but surely if an ITC judge has already ruled in Apple's favour then surely that's a precedent - in which case the other filings will fail?

Patent laws (and the granted patent claims for a patent family) vary greatly from country to country - there's barely any agreement between the German and UK courts when looking at the same patent, let alone European and US courts!

I see this more as posturing from Nokia and that they've finally woken up to the fact that their market share is plummeting and what can they do to claw revenue back. i.e. At the very least they can try to use some of the output (patents) from their massive R&D spend.