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 interface, as well as camera, antenna and power management technologies. These patented technologies are important to Nokia’s success as they allow better user experience, lower manufacturing costs, smaller size and longer battery life for Nokia products.
“Nokia has been the leading developer of many key technologies in small electronic devices” said Paul Melin, General Manager, Patent Licensing at Nokia. “This action is about protecting the results of such pioneering development. 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.”
Source: Nokia
MacDailyNews Take: Can’t compete? Litigate.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Karwa” for the heads up.]
What a joke.. after how many years, they decide to react now? MDN take says it all.
Nokia being a leading developer…. phe phe….
12 years and their phone are still shit. How are they a leading developer.
And besides… did you really think the US will allow a Finnish company overtake an American Icon?
They’ll go nowhere
Now, they’ve asked for war.
Apple helped design the first commercial digital camera. How the hell can Nokia have a camera patent that trumps that?
So what? Apple made a GSM phone and is selling them like crazy, so lets sue them!? Nokia is such a pathetic company. I hope they get there ass wiped. And am glad I never owned one of there products and that for the crap that the company decided to do here in Germany. Nokia go join M$ and burn in Hell!
Apple infringes Nokia’s patents with their computers? Who are these clowns trying to fool?
=:~)
If the case has any actual merit, and it may, then best of luck to them. They certainly did not expect Apple, of all potential competitors, to waltz in and grab a chunk of the most profitable sector of the market! So, initially there was considerable charity as the Cs chuckled at the newcomer. Then things went sideways and they had to adjust their strategy.
DO they have a case? I wouldn’t know that if all the relevant documents were laid out in front of me with a road-map to lead me through it! But they have told Apple that they are coming, which means that Apple will be looking at the facts and devising work-arounds where they – Apple – thinks they might possibly be on dangerous ground. Expect a number of innovations in the new iPhone this June, all related to this suit.
Microsoft spends its money on marketing.
Nokia spends its money on lawyers.
Apple spends its money on R&D;.
That says it all.
From what I can tell, RoughlyDrafted’s earlier article on the Nokia-Apple patent dispute continues to hold true:
[…] this is not a case of tit-for-tat as virtually every report so far has suggested. It’s a case of Nokia, finding itself well behind the curve in mobile phones, attempting to extort unfair, unreasonable, and discriminatory licensing terms against Apple for patents which Nokia has already committed to license under fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms.
In case Nokia hasn’t noticed:
No one wants their phones backwards symbian phones anymore…That’s why their sales are fast dwindling.
Just like all the others that laughed at the iphone rather than transform and get with the times ( monkey boy Balmer, Colligen etc..) they still prefer to pursue politics of (self) destruction at their own peril. How smart…
The ITC case is where the real money will be made, if any. Nokia will now describe just how big a slice of Apple’s money it will need to STFU and go away. After which it will get back in line behind all the others.
bioness … granting that much of what you say is true, none of it has any impact on the facts of the case. Make it TWO dozen years of building crap phones, if they have the patents someone stepped on in making a GOOD phone … end of story.
As for a Finnish company vs an American one … Justice is Justice regardless of where the litigants hail from. Change that and you may still be talking about the LAW, but you are no longer talking about <u>Justice</u>. This is a hard truth many Americans struggle with, and still fail to understand. And many of the rest of us occasionally grind our teeth over it.
Chas … I think maybe they are talking about Airport?
Nokia is run by morons. Had they actually innovated, my last Nokia would have been different from the one from 1997. In reality, it was just physically smaller. Yup. That’s all they managed in a decade.
The MDN take is , as usual, strangely ironic and hypocritical since they are usually the loudest cheerleader for Apple’s litigious endeavors. Self awareness is rare quality these days.
oh SHUT THE EFF UP Nokia, you’d sell off your first born to keep Apple from making your own devs look like the complete morons…….OOOOPS, too late. I say in 2 years we’re all going to be saying ‘Nokia…….remember that company?’
AND……..If you notice….EVERYONE wants an iPhone I don’t care who you are, you may say you don’t but you do………the biggest thing that keeps everyone away is the carrier. So obviously if the iPhone was on multiple carriers there would only be ONE phone being sold right now…..one, and that’s the APPLE iPHONE…bee-otches.
This is yet another example of why we need tort reform. Yet we will never get it as long as the trial lawyers lobby has deep money in the Democratic party. This nation will perish unless we get rid of our arrogant government scum and replace it with responsible conservative leadership. It has been a very long time since we have had such leadership.
Time for a new American Revolution.
AND…….if you’ve paid attention to the MP3 player market, there is only ONE clear choice to make, hell even the word iPod is used to describe even the cheapest of crap wannabe digital music players because it is THE standard, just like the iPhone will be.
responsible conservative leadership
I love the smell of oxymorons in the morning.
I had a Nokia phone that fried my brain if I talked for more than a few minutes. Awful piece of shit. I wonder if I can sue them if I get brain cancer…
Hold on: if these patents were being violated, they were being violated when Nokia issued the first lawsuit.
Are Nokia actually trying to convince people that they’re discovering these “breaches” in their patents on a piecemeal basis, because – to me – it smells of “our case has to be larger and more wide-ranging than their case” which is more than a bit pathetic.
Oxymoron?
The only type of conservative leadership there is IS responsible. We are currently living under the very opposite of responsible conservative leadership: reckless statists tyranny.
It’s always interesting to see liberals criticize the notion of conservative leadership when, in fact, we have not had anything of the sort for a very long time. We had it imperfectly in Reagan, but that’s about it. Whereas we have had plenty of liberal governance as well as “compassionate conservatism”, which is nothing more than thinly veiled repackaged Republican liberalism. And sadly, the masses are easily swayed by slick-talking trash like Obama.
But I think the time is upon us that the American people will put their collective foot down and yell out loud and clear, “Leave us the hell alone!”
@Josh…
Yesterday, you were on your high horse parroting your Glen Beck-inspired teabagger nonsense about a government that restricts itself to its duties under the Constitution.
Can I just remind you that – under Article I, §8 of that document – the Federal Government is empowered to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
For that benefit to accrue to American innovators (like Apple) against transgressors wherever they may be, the Federal Government has to allow foreign companies to make any case – no matter how ridiculous – to the courts in this country.
Otherwise, the USA would be no better than the People’s Republic of China.
Nokia pulls a Google move who would have guessed.
You would have to be pretty naive to think justice is justice no matter where it is judged. If so I wonder why litigents in patent disputes are exceedingly careful what state they litigate in. Equally in Europe France amongst others is not a place to try to get fair and reasonable justice against a French domiciled company with strong links or influence in that country. Meanwhile, Britain has come to be the defamation capital of the world for anyone in the World whose only link is that they once viewed a photo of Buckingham Palace, because of its ludicrous pro litigator bias and where as a result free speech is seriously threatened.
As Magnús Magnússon once said the Court system has nothing to do with justice it has everything to do with the most influential and wealthy participant instructing the ablest barrister to participate in a drawn out stage drama.
I think the real problem here is Nokia’s getting mud thrown in there face from a newcomer in the smart phone business that never designed a mobile phone before 2007. since the introduction of the iPhone Nokia’s stock has almost lost -50% and Apple stock has gained 150%. The day after Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone I read that Nokia’s stock declined 10% in Finland alone, pulling down the finnish stock exchange by nearly 7%, at this rate and for not having any competitive products as well as having ugly designs. Nokia is grabbing at the last straw here, and that all to save some face!