Nokia Press: Patent Infringements and Carl Zeiss
Two things that have gone up recently at Nokia Press relate to patent infringements, and also the Carl Zeiss-Nokia partnership. First up, let’s look at the patent infringements.
Nokia are claiming that HTC and Viewsonic have infringed on their patents in the US, and that HTC and RIM have infringed patents in Dusseldorf, Germany, with all three OEMs infringing in Munich. “In total, 45 Nokia patents are in suit in one or more of the actions”. It doesn’t say directly what the violations are, but claim that
proprietary innovations protected by these patents are being used by the companies to enable hardware capabilities such as dual function antennas, power management and multimode radios, as well as to enhance software features including application stores, multitasking, navigation, conversational message display, dynamic menus, data encryption and retrieval of email attachments on a mobile device.
have been used without consent. The only thing I can think of is the new BB10 reminding me of Harmattan a little bit, or the One X have te polycarbonate body. That’s nothing to take legal action against. (Or are times that tough?) Nokia are stating that they would;
rather that other companies respect our intellectual property and compete using their own innovations, but as these actions show, we will not tolerate the unauthorized use of our inventions.
In regards to the Carl Zeiss Nokia partnership, Nokia are saying it has been “extended”, which essentially just means that the great imaging technology will come to Lumia stronger than before. This s supported by Nokia themselves, in saying
“Carl Zeiss was a crucial partner in the creation of the first PureView experience,” said Jo Harlow, executive vice president of Nokia Smart Devices. “The benefits of our ongoing collaboration will be more PureView innovation and further advancements in smartphone imaging in the coming months and years.”
Reading that, I can only see one thing. Nokia Lumia PureView to be announced at Nokia World, if not earlier. Coming months for Nokia is usually 5-6, which fits Nokia World’s dates of end of September. Having a good feeling about this year. Nokia just need to make sure they blow everyone out of the park at NW2012, otherwise it will be a huge let down and even harder for them to climb back to power.
A post was also released about the 808 PureView’s roll out, which was covered here
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Sue the shit out of them!
i second that
i third that (wat)
i fourth that..
I fifth that! lol
i infinity that.. I really think too many ppl have been riding on the coat-tails of Nokia’s cellular portfolio say the least.
+1
companies do this as a last resort since they are running out of money….wait years and build up the pantents wait for low as stocks and and low Quarters,then sue the shit out of everyone on that list after how many units where made and shipped XD
Oh wait, lets pull our heads out of the bag…Apple suits against everyone, google suits, samsung suits. Hmmm, they all must be running out of money. About time you get em Nokia. Crush Google ( who’s ceo admits stealing is the Google way) ha,ha. That will be less money for paid Nokia bashers.
Apple stock continues its fall. Google announces our personal info is the next black gold. Windows may snatch the Nook from Android.
Apple stock is only falling because it’s ridiculously high and down is the only direction it can go.
+1
Except …. Apple LOVES to sue for patent infringement and they are very aggressive at it. Is Apple losing money? Sorry but you lose. Another comment where you’re way off from reality.
Microsoft is aggressive in patent suits, and they’re full of money as well.
I say it’s about time. Too many companies copying or using Nokia innovations.
Oh and last time I checked, Nokia wasn’t running out of money. Last time I checked, Nokia had billions of Euros in cash, and many billions more in assets.
somehow do not know if Apple pays for each phone sold to Nokia for stealing technology and software from 2 years ago.were sued and made secret deal.hmmm many innovations from apple.just marketing
yep, apple is running out of money
Nice joke there heh
SUE when you can’t Do.
Nokia is becoming more pathetic by the day.
Must be Apple, Google ,Samsung and others cant. Maybe thats why they all copy Nokia. Ha.ha.ha.
Doesnt look good for java/google suit for google. Google says it want to spend 500 million in the u.s. for fiber optic cable for home internet. In order to use it though all your information is their property. Big Brother is watching.
You trolls are pathetic. It’s about time Nokia got paid BIG money for all the innovations they came up with for phones, innovations that so many companies have copied or are using for free.
Nokia started to act like a patent troll now.
Get em Nokia.
You’re not a patent troll if you actually use what you’ve patented.
BB10′s look and feel similar to Harmattan is because it officially uses Qt & Qt Quick components..
I don’t believe it’s about look and feel. No UI elements are specifically mentioned in the article.
Yeah, it’s likely the antenna. Lately BlackBerries have been as good as Nokias for reception.
BB10 uses its own set of QtComponents, not those used on Harmattan or Symbian. Nokia would be nuts to sue someone providing their own QtComponent library.
Every company is going to have to play the software patent game for as long as it goes on. Nokia is getting sued by mutliple companies and considering they have the most extensive mobile patent portfolio, it would kbe ind of stupid of them not to play the game. That said, the system is clearly broken but until its fixed you better play along or get taken by those who are playing.
Now that’s worth a read .. It’s almost sure that HTC & Viewsonic would end up paying Royalties
List of 45 Patents & a Good read too
http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/05/nokias-patent-assertions-against-htc.html
I like this statement in that article:
“Nokia demonstrated against Apple that it means business when it starts patent lawsuits.”
Good read indeed
Nokia must release at least a point & shoot camera with PureView 41MP without phone capabilities. That would be a real revolution in the industry. They have nothing to lose and I hope they have the guts to do it.
All these Nokia Belle (Symbian) haters would simply flock to it without a doubt. By then ALL Phone blogs would have promoted the Nokia PureView innovation. No more advertising required!
Nokia stock would instantly definite from it.
I like the non phone purefun idea also.
Apple had to settle with Nokia last year.. and it was a huge law suite as far as I remember. I really don’t see any other company in the biz that can stand against Nokia in terms of IP.. maybe Motorola on the hardware/radio/antenna side, but not on the software side. Nokia has been making smartphones way longer than HTC & Co.
Samsung is on the same level as Nokia
Software pattens are pure 99.9% pure crap that only benefit law firms revenues.
I can’t understand why Carl Zeiss would extend a deal exclusively with Nokia when Nokia is clearly going to die by the end of the year.
I mean, first it was a factory in Vietnam that wont be ready for a year or two (way to late), and now Carl Zeiss does this.
The world is bonkers!
Looks like Google may be loosing some of its stooges. This will shut htc, viewsonic and rim in key markets. Maybe Rim should do a sale of its patents to Nokia or else. Windows 8 will be a hit. Its so much better than ios or android.
Windows 8, I suppose you are talking about WP8, so have you used it? care to show some videos? because you know people have been saying that since…. “windows mobile is goin to kill foo” (at the time it was symbian)
so we would like to see..
Evidently Nokia isn’t going to die.
Nokia has forgotten that it is mobile company, it has become a kind of Microsoft propaganda division and has to focus on court trials instead of innowations like MeeGo or renewed Symbian. This is end of glory of innovations, start of creative patent trolling company.
Even if it is needed, perhaps I underestimate the need, then still customers are abandoned for irrelevant mini market around 0.4% with Windows, and this tragicomedy means all of above 200 mobile models, including lumias, are in this 0.4%….! And Nokia does not care about around 250M of Symbian and MeeGo and Sxx users…!
Does Nokia want to live for MS subventions and court trials incomes? And meanwhile to fire all who develop new solutions? Tragical comedy…..
So when Apple gets their new os they will be hurting ios users?
apple is a evil corporation for embargoing in stupid software patent trolling… “i patented copy paste” type of thing.
If nokia become one of such companies it wont make nokia a better company, and if its about stupid (only legal in the US) software patents, I really hope they lose.
Germany is the worst for patents actually, not the US. It doesn’t change much though, since the lawsuits are being filed in Germany too.
Nokia’s Plan “B” i guess, sue the shit of everyone.
They sued Apple before, this isn’t a change in strategy.
They sued Apple and won basically, as Apple settled with them for a large amount. How many other companies can claim that?
That’s why Nokia suing these other companies is important, as they are likely to win as well. Nokia is not suing them for just any old vague or ambigious patents. Nokia is suing for patents that it innovated in or pioneered.
Nokia needs all the help it can get, and this will help.
Of course suing RIM isn’t going to do them all that much. It’s not like they’re selling gobs of BlackBerries for Nokia to be recovering significant royalty payments. HTC is more useful, but there they’re attacking another member in the WP ecosystem, which isn’t going to help overall. Unless the settlement deal is that HTC is allowed to use Nokia antenna patents for a nominal fee in their Windows Phones but not Androids, therefore making WP the go-to platform for people who want good reception. Viewsonic isn’t going to get them much either.
I’m thinking their win over Apple ends up being worth more than all 3 of these suits combined.
Sue apple for patenting application switching while making a call.
Nokia won vs. Apple on the antenna lawsuit but apple and US media didn’t acknowledge it.
And why the f* is the reply button not working?
I wonder how bad things are behind the scenes at Nokia?
If they really need the cash from this activity what is next?
A fire sale?
Nokia (and every patent holder in the world) are obliged to sue for patent infringements, unless they want to see the patent rendered invalid. If you don’t sue (or otherwise defend the patent), you resign your rights to the public domain per default.
This is off-topic but perhaps you will start to think from other POV. Do you know that second world war has been (also) stimulated by patents? I.G. Farben company (in our times has been divided in several smaller, the BASF among them) has patented the technology or producing explosives from… the air… Because in the air there in chemical compound N and this is one of basic elements of explosives. but you know, to sell explosives there must be a high demand for them. The highest demand can be generated by a war. So a lobby were lobbying for war, until they have succeed. Of course that was not the only reason, but people behind I.G.Farben patent had so big power and so big money that they were able to influence, and as they have patent for explosives, so they have particular interest in the war to start… Just simple business as usual…. So patents not always are good things…..
Patents are never good things, but given that they exist it’s better to have multiple companies fighting each other rather than one or two big ones.
Well, people/companies want protection of their designs and IPs, hence the patent system. From what I’ve been reading in regards to patents, it seems like the system is broken which allows any Tom, Dick and Harry to concoct some idea and patent it, then when some company happen to design something similar by coincidence, they end up getting sued. I can’t recall the exact cases, but there have been a number cases like this being reported by Daily Tech before.
“…have been used without consent. The only thing I can think of is the new BB10 reminding me of Harmattan a little bit, or the One X have te polycarbonate body. That’s nothing to take legal action against. (Or are times that tough?) Nokia are stating that they would…”
I’m not that familiar with BlackBerry, so can’t comment there, but in HTC’s case, I notice that its Locations app is nearly similar to Nokia Drive even up till the point of allowing offline navigation, with the exception of paying for certain features like traffic updates, downloading an entire country, etc. That, and another similarity is its conversation view when it comes to Messaging (just saw this in a review of its One X at GSM Arena). These are the only two I can think of for Nokia to take legal action against them.
Apple was born from stolen work and hardware. HTC, Samsung etc. come from countries where knock-offs and “influenced design” are the name of the game. Here in the USA, you can get away with mostly copying something so long as it’s 20% different and doesn’t use someone else’s proprietary code or hardware, or you can if you license it.
For instance, you can tell there is a strong resemblanc of the Infinity G37 Coupe/Nissan Skyline 370 in Hyundai’s Genesis Coupe, but it’s different enough looking and didn’t jack any of their parts.
So it’s easy enough to modify design, why use the expec design
obviously a phone will have common elements to it. just like a book or a car – something needs to be improved, the scope for improvement in any particular product will be governed by needs. if all the companies claim that whatever they patented would not have been possible without them its silly.
we will soon come to a situation where each company will sue the **** out of each other and we go back to landlines.
nokia has the highest number of patents because theyve been at it for a long time. its time to reset the patent system too. it’s stupidity for granting apple the slide unlock, especially when there was prior art. absolutely ridiculous.
desperate times call for desperate measures. Nokia was never seen as patent trolls. if nokia were indeed pained by the patent infringement, they could have done that a few years back with htc/ et al. this is clear desperation of nokia’s winblows platform being a non starter.
also interesting is nokia’s going to the dark side is almost complete now, this is how microsoft usually embraces/ extends and extinguishes. when win8 does not launch well, much like win 7, win 7.5… MS is going to eat nokia for lunch.
all the meego and symbian fans have been shouting this from the rooftops – the sequence is unfolding pretty much on cue and yet nokia’s board and elop say this is the right strategy!
great news, nokia has a huge IP portfolio,
nokia deserves to be paid for the patents it has spent billions on,
i think more than 50 billion spent on r&d