Third Nokia lawsuit accuses Apple of multiple patent violations
Nokia has filed a another lawsuit against Apple, with a new federal complaint that alleges the Cupertino, Calif., company has infringed on several "implementation patents," the same cited in an ITC suit filed last week.
Filed in a federal court in Delaware, the complaint alleges that a number of Apple's products have violated patents owned by Nokia. Specifically named in the suit are the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch, iPod nano, iPod classic, iMac, Mac Pro, Mac mini, MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air.
Patents owned by Nokia named in the suit are "VCO with Programmable Output Power," issued in 2004; "Mobile Communication Device and Related Construction Method," issued in 2004; "Optimized Camera Sensor Architecture for a Mobile Telephone," granted in 2005; "Communications Device with Touch Sensitive Screen," from 2003; "Mobile Station with Touch Input Having Automatic Symbol Magnification Function," issued in 2000; "Utilizing the Contents of a Message," granted in 2001; and "User Interface Device," from 2005.
The complaint filed last week is the third from Nokia against Apple. Also last week, a lawsuit was filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission in which it has asked that imports of Apple products -- including the iPhone, iPods, and MacBooks -- be banned.
The ITC complaint accuses Apple of treading on seven distinct patents applying to user interface, camera, antenna and power management. The ITC suit covers the same patents included in the Delaware federal suit.
In October, Nokia first sued Apple over the use of patented wireless standards. The lawsuit alleged that Apple infringes on GSM and wireless LAN related patents owned by Nokia with the iPhone.
In December, Apple countersued Nokia, alleging that the Finnish company infringed on 13 patents. Apple also accused Nokia of attempting to obtain more money from it than other companies, plus rights to Apple's intellectual property.
As Nokia has lost market share to competitors Apple and Research in Motion, the market leader has fought back and hopes to maintain its position atop the cell phone business. This week, Rick Simonson, Nokia's executive vice president, spoke with India's The Economic Times and said his company hopes to be "at par" with Apple and RIM in smartphone sales by 2011.
"Not only we draw level with them," he said, "we will also win the war because, in addition to email, we will be adding content, chat, music, entertainment and several other features, which will soon become very critical for success of any company in this space."
Filed in a federal court in Delaware, the complaint alleges that a number of Apple's products have violated patents owned by Nokia. Specifically named in the suit are the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch, iPod nano, iPod classic, iMac, Mac Pro, Mac mini, MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air.
Patents owned by Nokia named in the suit are "VCO with Programmable Output Power," issued in 2004; "Mobile Communication Device and Related Construction Method," issued in 2004; "Optimized Camera Sensor Architecture for a Mobile Telephone," granted in 2005; "Communications Device with Touch Sensitive Screen," from 2003; "Mobile Station with Touch Input Having Automatic Symbol Magnification Function," issued in 2000; "Utilizing the Contents of a Message," granted in 2001; and "User Interface Device," from 2005.
The complaint filed last week is the third from Nokia against Apple. Also last week, a lawsuit was filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission in which it has asked that imports of Apple products -- including the iPhone, iPods, and MacBooks -- be banned.
The ITC complaint accuses Apple of treading on seven distinct patents applying to user interface, camera, antenna and power management. The ITC suit covers the same patents included in the Delaware federal suit.
In October, Nokia first sued Apple over the use of patented wireless standards. The lawsuit alleged that Apple infringes on GSM and wireless LAN related patents owned by Nokia with the iPhone.
In December, Apple countersued Nokia, alleging that the Finnish company infringed on 13 patents. Apple also accused Nokia of attempting to obtain more money from it than other companies, plus rights to Apple's intellectual property.
As Nokia has lost market share to competitors Apple and Research in Motion, the market leader has fought back and hopes to maintain its position atop the cell phone business. This week, Rick Simonson, Nokia's executive vice president, spoke with India's The Economic Times and said his company hopes to be "at par" with Apple and RIM in smartphone sales by 2011.
"Not only we draw level with them," he said, "we will also win the war because, in addition to email, we will be adding content, chat, music, entertainment and several other features, which will soon become very critical for success of any company in this space."
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How about making a phone people actually want, Nokia?
*yawn*
how about making a phone people actually want, nokia?
exactly!!!!
This week, Rick Simonson, Nokia's executive vice president, spoke with India's The Economic Times and said his company hopes to be "at par" with Apple and RIM in smartphone sales by 2011.
"Not only we draw level with them," he said, "we will also win the war because, in addition to email, we will be adding content, chat, music, entertainment and several other features, which will soon become very critical for success of any company in this space."
Nokia's strategy:
APPLE: It's my playing field. Screw you and your ball!
This week, Rick Simonson, Nokia's executive vice president, spoke with India's The Economic Times and said his company hopes to be "at par" with Apple and RIM in smartphone sales by 2011.
"Not only we draw level with them," he said, "we will also win the war because, in addition to email, we will be adding content, chat, music, entertainment and several other features, which will soon become very critical for success of any company in this space."
Nokia's strategy:
As Nokia has lost market share to competitors Apple and Research in Motion, the market leader has fought back and hopes to maintain its position atop the cell phone business. This week, Rick Simonson, Nokia's executive vice president, spoke with India's The Economic Times and said his company hopes to be "at par" with Apple and RIM in smartphone sales by 2011.
"Not only we draw level with them," he said, "we will also win the war because, in addition to email, we will be adding content, chat, music, entertainment and several other features, which will soon become very critical for success of any company in this space."
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This is really laughable because it seems like they think they're doing something over the top, and beyond the other cell phone manufacturers because they aren't just doing calls and email.
I'm not sure what they're thinking, but it seems they've completely missed what the iPhone and all other act-a-likes are: not a phone with extended abilities, but a mini-computer with phone capabilities. Everyone else has been doing the "more" thing now for over a year. While I really like their N97 (it has about everything everyone yelled the iPhone didn't have), the interface and web browser, not to mention app lack just makes me want to hackintosh it and have a really cool iPhone competitor.
They just kind of seem to have missed the whole ball of wax.
or maybe their case is so thin they want to try a Psystar and hope they get different opinions from different folks. which will then raise the question, who has the higher power, the courts or the ITC. could a court win by Apple override a win with the ITC by Nokia.
"Not only we draw level with them," he said, "we will also win the war because, in addition to email, we will be adding content, chat, music, entertainment and several other features, which will soon become very critical for success of any company in this space."
Really? That's awesome. I think I'll drop my iPhone and jump ship. This guy's a visionary. One smart smartypants.
might as well be a "Mobile Communication Device and Related Construction Method"
or "Mobile Station with Touch Input Having Automatic Symbol Magnification Function"
if you just going to construe a series of words together that imply a future technology that has yet to be constructed other than in a form of a cocktail napkin, then I am patenting my
"Magnetic elevating transportation vehicle with cruise-control" (cause you gotta have it) or
"nuclear-powered back scratcher with alarm-clock interface set to (heh) atomic time"
Really? That's awesome. I think I'll drop my iPhone and jump ship. This guy's a visionary. One smart smartypants.
he wants the nokia to be an iphone too....
"Not only we draw level with them," he said, "we will also win the war because, in addition to email, we will be adding content, chat, music, entertainment and several other features, which will soon become very critical for success of any company in this space."
Wow, who could imagine all that on a phone? Curious what the several other features referred to are - probably top secret.
Also, how can Nokia single out Apple-- they can't be cross-licensing with RIM (push messaging would be a clear win for Nokia), and it is hard to believe Palm and Motorola could produce phones with the same ASP, similar margins, and be paying more in royalties.
Wow, who could imagine all that on a phone? Curious what the several other features referred to are - probably top secret.
Those other features will be whatever Apple introduces in iPhone OS 4.0.
More seriously, they are "top secret" as the things he mentions outright are things that are already on most phones. One of these other features is very likely a more integrated location-based awareness (LBA) across all aspects of the phone - after all, Nokia bought Navteq (which may or may not have led to Google dropping Navteq data for its own data in its maps). And LBA is what I fully expect Apple to have well-integrated in the rumored tablet, the next iPhone OS, and to a lesser degree, in Mac OS. And I expect the same from Google in Android.
Nokia has a market cap of what, 45 billion?
Looks like the situation can resolve itself with a purchase of some stock.
if you just going to construe a series of words together that imply a future technology that has yet to be constructed other than in a form of a cocktail napkin, then I am patenting my
You realize a patent is significantly longer than its title...?
if I can just patent on a cocktail napkin, a crudely drawn perpetual motion machine and never actually build one and one day in the future when someone does say....You infringed on my perpetual motion machine patent...
A perpetual motion machine is one of the few things you can not patent...
Looks like now that the Psystar thing has gone down the tubes, they have come up with a new tact.