October 22nd, you could read that Nokia sued Apple, claiming Apple was infringing 10 patents owned by Nokia, including GSM, UMTS and WLAN standards. Yesterday Apple responded with a countersuit claiming that Nokia is infringing 13 Apple patents.
Apple’s General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Bruce Sewell commented in a public announcement: “Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours”
Few weeks ago, Finish phone company Nokia sued Apple over patent infringement and now another sue against Apple has been issued. This time, a group of consumers are unsatisfied with the iPhone 3G S, claiming the commercials are misleading and therefore suing both Apple and AT&T.
In the commercials, Apple promises full MMS compatibility and with that possibility to send and receive videos, photos and sounds. That is, according to the sue, not true to what the iPhone 3G S can, although AT&T and Apple have promised to recondition the lack of MMS.
Late September, AT&T activated the MMS function for their iPhone customers, but apparently it didn’t succeed without failures.
The Finnish mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia, announced today that they are suing Apple for infringing 10 patents owned by Nokia, in the iPhone.
The infringed patents includes GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) standards.
As a leading innovator in wireless communications, Nokia has created one of the strongest and broadest patent portfolios in the industry, investing more than EUR 40 billion in R&D during the last two decades. Much of this intellectual property, including the patents in suit, has been declared essential to industry standards. Nokia has already successfully entered into license agreements including these patents with approximately 40 companies, including virtually all the leading mobile device vendors, allowing the industry to benefit from Nokia’s innovation.
The patents covers technology that are all integrated in the iPhone and the suit covers all iPhones shipped since the iPhone was introduced in 2007.
According to analyst Gene Munster, is the endgame with the suit patent royalties from Apple , because Nokia wants to hasten the process and wants a patent royalty of 1%-2% on every iPhone sold in compensation for the technologies that according to Nokia, are patented to them.
Read the entire press release from Nokia
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