Posts Tagged ‘nokia’
SCENARIOS-What lies ahead in Nokia vs Apple legal battle
January 9th, 2010
HELSINKI, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Finding a winner in the legal battle between Nokia (NOK1V.HE) and Apple (AAPL.O) will likely take years as the two cellphone giants use the courts to pressure each other into a licensing agreement.
Nokia dominates the global handset industry but has been losing ground in the high-end of the market to newer players like Apple, which started to sell its first iPhone model in mid-2007.
Analysts have said Nokia — holder of one of the strongest patent portfolio in wireless space, along with Ericsson (ERICb.ST) and Qualcomm (QCOM.O) — could seek patent infringement payments from Apple totalling as much 1 billion euros ($1.44 billion). [ID:nLN464459]
Following is an outline of the battle that is starting to unfold and what could come next:
DELAWARE, ITC CASES
In October, Nokia filed its first suit in the U.S. District Court of Delaware, saying Apple had infringed 10 patents in technologies like wireless data transfer, a key factor in the success of iPhone. [ID:nLM664007]
The patents also cover speech coding, security and encryption, and Nokia has alleged that they are infringed by all iPhone models shipped since the iPhone was introduced in 2007.
Apple countersued in Delaware in December, claiming Nokia is infringing 13 Apple patents. [ID:nN11260646] Nokia has until Feb. 8 to respond to the filing.
Cases like this usually last two to three years.
Apple last week also filed a complaint against Nokia with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). It did not release details.
Their filing follows one from Nokia, which said on Dec. 29 it had lodged a complaint with the ITC alleging Apple had infringed seven Nokia patents in “virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, and computers” sold. [ID:nLDE5BS173]
Criminals Pay Top Money for Hackable Nokia Phone
March 11th, 2009
Criminals are willing to pay thousands of euros for a discontinued Nokia mobile phone with a software problem that can be exploited to hack into online bank accounts, according to a fraud investigator in the Netherlands.
About 10 days ago, investigators observed someone transfer €25,000 (US$32,413) for a Nokia 1100 phone, said Frank Engelsman of Designer Swimwear Ultrascan Advanced Global Investigations. The candy-bar style phone is one of Nokia’s all-time best-selling models, and originally sold for under €100.
Engelsman said police contacted Ultrascan about six months ago to see if the security company knew why the phones were in demand. Since then, Ultrascan has seen the price for the Nokia 1100 rise from around €5,000 to the latest figure.
