“The lawsuit — the second Nokia has filed against Apple in the patent war that broke out last October — is nearly identical to the complaint the Finnish phone manufacturer filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) on Dec. 29,” Keizer reports. “In that complaint, Nokia also demanded that Apple be barred from bringing ‘all of Apple’s electronic devices that infringe one or more claims of the Asserted Patents’ into the U.S.”
Keizer reports, “Nokia has not, however, filed a motion specifically asking the court to slap an injunction on Apple’s hardware sales. The case has not yet been assigned a judge.”
“The lawsuit claimed that virtually every major piece of hardware Apple sells infringes one or more of the seven patents,” Keizer reports. “The complete list includes the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS smart phones; the iPod touch, iPod nano and iPod classic music players; the iMac, Mac mini and Mac Pro desktops; and the MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air notebooks.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: One thing’s for sure: Nokia does desperation far better than they do smartphones.
If Nokia is successful in anyway, I’ll still be buying a mac. Even if I have to go to the black market.
It’s amazing how far has Nokia fallen…
Think they are trying to knock the share price so that they can buy a shed load, its the only way they will make money over the next 10 years.
If you can’t innovate, litigate
Let’s call for a world wide boycott of Nokia
@Dave
There already is a boycott… people are buying iPhones
At least the AppleTV is safe! Whew!
Nokia reminds me of the Looters from “Atlas Shrugged”.
Here’s how it works. If you sell any kind of mobile phone device or, apparently, any kind of personal computer, you stole it from whoever made the first one.
Who knows who that was? Answer – a jury.
Gee, Nokia, the iPod has been around since 2001. Strange how you just decided to file a lawsuit now, 9 years late. The Macs have been around longer. Either this is an attempt to extort (which it is) or you’re just flat out incompetent (which you are).
Good luck with that Nokia lol
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Nokia needs to look up DESPERATION in the dictionary.
Dictionary:
desperation |ˌdespəˈrā sh ən|
a state of despair, typically one that results in rash or extreme behavior : she wrote to him in desperation.
Thesaurus:
her family failed to see her state of desperation: hopelessness, despair, distress; anguish, agony, torment, misery, wretchedness; discouragement, disheartenment.
The American system of justice, of which they are so proud, shows its weak side again. There still is a chance, though, that some judge may throw this out and not waste money, but just the fact that Nokia figured it could file a lawsuit as preposterous as this one states clearly that you can sue anyone for just about anything in the US, and in almost all cases, get your day in court, courtesy of the US taxpayer.
The barrier to entry really should be higher. This is just absurd.
Wouldn’t Other companies be equally as guilty as apple?
A Finnish company is banning a US company from shipping its personal property into the US. I wonder if there are any similar restrictions on selling Nokia products. (you know… besides quality.)
ROFL.
Yeah, it’ll happen.
On the 15th of Never.
I didn’t realize that Nokia felt so threatend. Could this be this case? This is what happens when Apple start to mingle with the big boys. (The big boys get hurt) ;P
Desperation— maybe!
Panic — yes!
haha, ok, imagine if during one of the Laker games, they plucked a superfan out of the stands for a 1 on 1 vs. Kobe. First to five points, if the fan wins, its a million bucks.
Swish. swish. swish. Kobe’s up 3-0.
Next comes the trips. The pushing. The jersey pulling.
When you’re outclassed, you break the rules.
This is Nokia’s biggest play. And when the dust settles, they’re going to have a branding Nightmare. “We’re Innovative! We promise!”
My unresolved question is why has Nokia take so long (years) to realize that their patents have been allegedly infringed upon?
Possible answer — the whole move on the part of Nokia is just plan old BS!
Nothing helps a floundering economy like persecuting successful business.
Well, I’m done with Nokia. I sold my modest stock holdings only last week. More than ten years as a shareholder and all I end up with is a stinking tax loss. What a bunch of losers!
If you cant beat em sue em.
nokia used to make mediocre phones, now they jsut suck.. they need to stick to making traffic signals
Sounds like the kind of patents that risk being invalidated with this kind of lawsuit. That could help everyone, except Nokia.
To Nokia
Hahahahahahahaha…..haha.
To Predrag
there are a lot of things we are not proud of in our justice system, and Consrvatives have been pointing these out for awhile