Nokia Sues Apple For Stealing iPhone

iPhone in iTrouble

October 22. 2009

Nokia (photo credit: Unwired website)

Just two days ago, on October 20, 2009, in the Apple Trounces Sony article, the Judiciary Report chided Sony for not being able to pull off its usual, criminal security breach, in hacking and stealing unreleased copyrights and patents, from competitor Apple, the maker of the iPhone.

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Two days later, today, it was announced Nokia is suing Apple for stealing the iPhone from them, based on preexisting patents they hold.

Nokia: Apple iPhone Violates Our Patents

October 22, 2009, 2:00PM EST - In a U.S. District Court lawsuit, the Finnish mobile-phone giant accuses Apple of patent infringement on Nokia-developed 3G and wireless LAN technology

Apple's iPhone has been giving Nokia smartphones a hard time in the marketplace. Now Nokia is giving Apple a hard time in the courtroom.

The Finnish handset giant said Oct. 22 it has filed suit against Apple (AAPL) in U.S. District Court in Delaware, accusing its California-based rival of infringing patents for core technology that allows the iPhone to make calls and connect to the mobile Internet. Although Nokia (NOK) has sued rivals such as Qualcomm (QCOM) over patents in the past, the latest lawsuit came as a surprise—and represents an escalation of increasingly contentious competition with Apple.

In a statement, Nokia said Apple has refused to pay for use of intellectual property developed by Nokia that lets handsets connect to third-generation, or 3G, wireless networks, as well as to wireless local area networks. "Apple is attempting to get a free ride on the back of Nokia's innovation," Ilkka Rahnasto, Nokia vice-president for legal and intellectual property, said in the statement. Neither Nokia nor Apple responded immediately to requests for further comment...

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Nokia Files Patent Lawsuit Against Apple

October 22, 2009 11:54 AM PDT - Nokia filed a lawsuit against Apple today alleging that the iPhone violates 10 different patents owned by Nokia. Nokia claims that the technologies, ranging from speech coding to security to wireless data transmission, have been used in every iPhone since the iPhone has existed, so what is the motive behind suing now?

The Finland-based mobile phone giant--with a comfortably dominant 45 percent share of the smart phone market--claims that these same patented technologies are licensed and paid for by 40 other tech companies and it feels that Apple is infringing on its patent rights by not doing so as well.

I understand that individuals and organizations should be able to protect their intellectual property and investment in developing innovative solutions. Nokia claims to have invested nearly $90 billion over the past 20 years on research and development for these and other patented technologies...

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