Espoo, Finland – Nokia announced it has today filed a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that Apple infringes Nokia patents in virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, and computers. The seven Nokia patents in this complaint relate to Nokia’s pioneering innovations that are now being used by Apple to create key features in its products in the area of user interfaces, as well as camera, antenna and power management technologies. Nokia says these innovations allow better user experiences, lower manufacturing costs, smaller devices and longer battery life.
“While our litigation in Delaware is about Apple’s attempt to free-ride on the back of Nokia investment in wireless standards, the ITC case filed today is about Apple’s practice of building its business on Nokia’s proprietary innovation,” said Paul Melin, general manager of patent licensing at Nokia.
The October case in Delaware was over 10 patents covering GSM, UMTS and WLAN. This lot is Nokias own proprietary work, and the ITC can block infringing products from being imported into the US, which is exactly what Nokia is asking for here. And notice the product list, phones, music players and computers. So your iPod and your Mac are in the firing line now, not just the iPhone!! Apple countersued on December 11th over 13 of its own patents. Well be watching, stay tuned.
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