Nokia sues Apple relating to iPhone patents/technologies
If you can’t really beat ‘em, sue ‘em. That’s apparently what Nokia has decided in the latest lawsuit against Apple filed today.
Nokia announced that it is lodging a lawsuit against Apple claiming that the iPhone violates 10 Nokia-held patents related to cellular and Wi-Fi technologies. Odds are it’ll get settled with some amount of legal paperwork and money, but its worth noting that Apple hasn’t responded to the lawsuit at all.
Taken from the press release regarding the lawsuit:
“The ten patents in suit relate to technologies fundamental to making devices which are compatible with one or more of the GSM, UMTS (3G WCDMA) and wireless LAN standards. The patents cover wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption and are infringed by all Apple iPhone models shipped since the iPhone was introduced in 2007.”
Nokia states they’ve agreed to licenses with 40 companies, but that Apple wouldn’t play ball with them, basically, which led to the lawsuit. Their desired outcome and other explicit details have not been released at this time. We’ll update you as this develops.
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“If you can’t really beat ‘em, sue ‘em.” That really had me laughing my ass off. On the smartphone front Nokia has more than three times the global smartphone share that Apple has. When you add feature phones into the equation, which you have to if you include the original iPhone 2G in calculations, then they must have sold ten or twenty times the amount of phones since the iPhone first got released. This is more a case of if you are beating them, sue them too.
The fact remains that Nokia invented these technologies that are needed by mobile phones in order to make calls, connect to the data network and even connect via Wi-Fi. They’ve tried for two years to get Apple to pay the fair license fees required to make a phone using those technologies and Apple has refused until Nokia has been left with no choice but to take legal action. As Apple is a little quicker to stamp down on people who infringe on their patents and Nokia is beating them anyway, this seems more a case of karma than sour grapes.