Apple wins in Nokia Patent fight :(
Nokia and Apple have been embroiled in patent wars since Oct 2009. Nokia sues Apple, Apple sues Nokia, rinse, repeat.
In November last year, Nokia was given a little victory when ITC sided that Nokia had NOT infringed on (13) Apple patents.
Bloomberg reports that this time around the hammer falls in favour of Apple who are also NOT infringing on 5 Nokia patents. You know, that thing Nokia help invent – GSM radios which other manufacturers in the industry pay royalty for but iPhone not. Hence it suddenly receiving it’s own fastasmic touch-to-turn-off external antenna in the fourth variation. A physical invention, not so much a more difficult thing to decide upon as in the implementation of ideas (e.g. unlocking a touch screen with a gesture). I may be grossly wrong. Nokia’s gripes were apparently that Apple had infringed on pioneering inventions related to cameras, battery life, touch-screens, speakers and messaging. (I don’t have the specifics, but I think they were also related to data transmission, GPS use in applications and antenna design for improving performance on smaller devices)
A spokesperson for Nokia said;
“While we don’t agree that there has been no violation, we’ll wait to see the details of the ruling before we decide on any next steps,”
As up to December 2010, this infographic was made showing who in the mobile industry is suing who:
I’m not sure how accurate this is.
image via designlanguage
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Nokia: suing people
And failing at it too.
that’s BS cause nokia has a HUGE portfolio someone paid someone for apple to win
Great. More reasons for apple and its sheeps to push their weight around.
Damn, Nokia is out suing everyone. But then again, they got bragging rights given the research and innovation in the field.
Well yes Nokia’s patent portfolio is in a different planet to somebody like Apple.
Really these patent fight in this level can’t be comprehend by us looking couple of links somewhere, i have tried.
I just hope Apple that really does not innovate on the hw side at all pays when they should because Nokia have and still spends astronomical sums of money every year mainly for stuff that makes all the phones and the network insfracture work and work better.
Nokia got where it was because of the knowhow and R&D in 90′s because they had innovated and companies that where 100x the size back then where taking years to get the basic tech Nokia had already done for this new interesting market.
What i’m saying is that as long as Nokia truly gets the money it deserves for the non visible stuff that makes these phones actually work(now they hold most patents for the next step, LTE) i’m fine with this.
Nokia is suing Apple for internal antenna?! What? Apple had real difficulties to implement this idea and they fail miserably. Nokia should laugh at them, not sue them.
you can expect appeals
So Nokia has been developing hand held phones since the mid to late 1980′s? apple introduced it’s first phone in 2007? Somehow there’s no patent infringement? Smells like someone stepped in something to me.
They should sue less and dedicate more time to making good products.
Yes, they should just let other companies use technology they have spent millions if not billions developing, completely free of charge.
Fantastic idea.
This is a initial ruling …
All judges need to agree with this.
Also this is only to block imports not a royality claim under the industry standards.
Regardless of your opinion on this it is good to note that basically all other v vendors pay nokia its due. Unfortunately the US has a long history of one way patent enforcement.
nokia is completely dead if lose patent war to apple!
The only thing this means is that both of them cannot sue for patent infringement for these specific patents. Earlier it was established Nokia did no violate Apple patents. This does not relieve Apple from the duty of paying Nokia FRAND for 3G/GSM. And when the deal with Microsoft is done, Nokiasoft will tear them a new hole.
true microsoft will fight back hard….
i personally dislike apple, they have patents for everything even they’re shape of the phone but they have no problem violating other company’s patents.
but if companies like nokia microsoft google dont fight back we’ll be forced to buy it , im considering it because of the shitload of apps and games, they offer more even thrughso much they control
Seems to me that companies are pushing harder than before to compete with competitors without doing the actual work of inventing new things rather just building on the work of others I think as this trend continues so will the cases of patent infringement and patent enforcement increase.
Seems to me that companies are pushing harder than before to compete with competitors without doing the actual work of inventing new things rather just building on the work of others I think as this trend continues so will the cases of patent infringement and patent enforcement increase.