“In Oct. 2009, when Nokia first complained in a U.S. federal court that Apple had infringed on 10 of its telecommunications patents, the case could be summarized in a fairly simple chart,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Forbes.
“Fourteen months later, that relatively straightforward patent dispute has escalated through suits and countersuits into a legal battle of Dickensian complexity now being fought in seven different venues, from Delaware to Dusseldorf,” P.E.D reports.
“FOSS Patents’ Florian Mueller, who tackled the Android vs. iOS patent battleground three weeks ago, has scoured thousands of pages of legal documents and posted what is likely to be the definitive map of Nokia vs. Apple,” P.E.D reports. “The finished document covers 19 ‘moves,’ 11 reference pages, 31 PDF slides and more than 75 individual patents.”
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