Nokia Files Fifth Patent Suit Against Apple
Nokia Files Fifth Patent Suit Against
Apple
The world's largest mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia Oyj, has reportedly filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Apple Inc over the latter's lucrative iPhone smartphones. The lawsuit is the fifth Nokia has file against the world's leading smartphone-maker and expands the company's complaint to include Apple's iPad tablet computers. The suit was filed Tuesday with a federal court in Madison, Wisconsin and helped push shares of Apple down 4.2 percent in early trading, the stock steepest intra-day decline since January 22nd.
In the last three years since Apple first unveiled the iPhone, Apple has surpassed Nokia as the undisputed world leader in smartphones. Nokia, which pioneered the smartphone sector more than 10 years ago with its keyboard-based Communicator, has been slow to evolve with new technologies like touch screens common on the popular Apple devices.
The current legal fight between the two tech giants began in October when Espoo, Finland-based Nokia filed a lawsuit accusing Apple of infringing on 10 of its patents. The suit asked for royalties on some 51 million iPhones that had been sold at that point with, it alleged, Nokia-patented technology on-board.
The five patents mentioned in the latest filing are related to enhanced speech and data transmission and antenna configurations that improve performance while also saving space. The patents are separate, the company said, from those involved in a similar complaint filed in a Delaware court and before the US International Trade Commission.
The complaint filed Tuesday seeks unspecified damage and asks the court to order Apple to cease using Nokia's inventions in its devices. A spokesman for Apple declined to comment on any of the pending complaints.
The world's largest mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia Oyj, has reportedly filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Apple Inc over the latter's lucrative iPhone smartphones. The lawsuit is the fifth Nokia has file against the world's leading smartphone-maker and expands the company's complaint to include Apple's iPad tablet computers. The suit was filed Tuesday with a federal court in Madison, Wisconsin and helped push shares of Apple down 4.2 percent in early trading, the stock steepest intra-day decline since January 22nd.
In the last three years since Apple first unveiled the iPhone, Apple has surpassed Nokia as the undisputed world leader in smartphones. Nokia, which pioneered the smartphone sector more than 10 years ago with its keyboard-based Communicator, has been slow to evolve with new technologies like touch screens common on the popular Apple devices.
The current legal fight between the two tech giants began in October when Espoo, Finland-based Nokia filed a lawsuit accusing Apple of infringing on 10 of its patents. The suit asked for royalties on some 51 million iPhones that had been sold at that point with, it alleged, Nokia-patented technology on-board.
The five patents mentioned in the latest filing are related to enhanced speech and data transmission and antenna configurations that improve performance while also saving space. The patents are separate, the company said, from those involved in a similar complaint filed in a Delaware court and before the US International Trade Commission.
The complaint filed Tuesday seeks unspecified damage and asks the court to order Apple to cease using Nokia's inventions in its devices. A spokesman for Apple declined to comment on any of the pending complaints.
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