Nokia, after filing a complaint against Apple with the International Trade Commission on Dec. 29, files a lawsuit with the Delaware district court. The lawsuit echoes the ITC complaint in that it alleges that Apple is infringing on seven Nokia patents with products such as the iPhone 3G and MacBook Air.
Nokia filed yet another patent-infringement lawsuit against Apple on Dec.
29, alleging that Apple has infringed on seven of its patents.
The lawsuit, filed with the U.S. District Court in Delaware,
is similar to the complaint Nokia made to the International Trade
Commission concerning the same patents, also on Dec. 29.
The patents are "implementation patents" as opposed to
"essential patents," Nokia clarified in the document. It went on to
state, "Nokia's implementation patents-including the Asserted Patents-are
particularly important to Nokia's success because they permit Nokia to
differentiate its products from those of its competitors."
Nokia said Apple "infringed and continues to infringe" on its
patents with, but not limited to, the sales of its "iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS,
iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPod Classic, iMac, Mac Pro, Mac Mini, MacBook, MacBook
Pro and MacBook Air."
The information covered by the patents includes device construction methods,
camera sensor optimization and touch-sensitive screens.
In the lawsuit, Nokia seeks judgment that the patents are valid and
enforceable, damages sustained for the alleged infringement, "pre-judgment
interest and post-judgment interest at the maximum rate allowed by law,"
an injunction against Apple and its offending employees, compensation for
attorneys' fees, costs of the suit and "such other and further relief as
the Court may deem just and proper."
Nokia logged its first complaint against Apple on Oct. 22, saying Apple infringed on 10 Nokia patents for GSM, WLAN and
UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) standards.
"By refusing to agree [to] appropriate terms for Nokia's intellectual
property, Apple is attempting to get a free ride on the back of Nokia's
innovation," Ilkka Rahnasto, vice president of Nokia's legal and
intellectual property division, said in an Oct. 22. statement.
Apple answered on Dec. 12 with a suit of its own, alleging
that Nokia infringed on 13 of its patents.
"Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own
technologies, not just by stealing ours," Bruce Sewell, Apple's general
counsel and senior vice president, wrote in a statement posted to Apple's
Website.
Michelle Maisto has been covering the enterprise mobility space for a decade, beginning with Knowledge Management, Field Force Automation and eCRM, and most recently as the editor-in-chief of Mobile Enterprise magazine. She earned an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University, and in her spare time obsesses about food. Her first book, The Gastronomy of Marriage, if forthcoming from Random House in September 2009.
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