The other Nokia lawsuit
Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 February 2010 05:46 Written by info Tuesday, 9 February 2010 05:46
Most of the posts here have focused on the securities fraud class action lawsuit that shareholders have filed against Nokia, but there’s another lawsuit involving Nokia that investors should be aware of.
Nokia has filed lawsuits before the International Trade Commission (ITC) and also in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware against Apple, alleging patent infringement. Specifically, Nokia asserts in the patent lawsuits that Apple’s iPhone 3G and 3GS infringe patents involving things like a “programmable voltage controlled oscillator” (whatever that is), a method for combining speaker and antenna assemblies, and a method to link contextual data from an email to cause an application to open and perform a specific function. Nokia also claims that the click-wheel on many iPods (but not the iPod Touch) violates a patent it has on combining multiple inputs in one interface [ed note: that is patentable? really?], and that every Apple device with a built-in camera, including MacBook laptops, violates a patent on a method to combine camera functions on a single chip.
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- Nokia responds to securities fraud lawsuit
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