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Published: December 16, 2010
Berlin - the latest salvo in a long legal battle, Nokia UK, Germany and the Netherlands on Thursday, Apple lawsuit alleging that its patents have been 13 U.S. technology company, including a touch screen for basic maneuver without your permission.
Nokia lawsuits filed by his arch-rival Apple Computer and Devices CUPERTINO, Calif., who in 2007 entered the mobile phone business with the iPhone, one device that has redefined the smartphone maker based in royalty payments from the most recent demand are .
"Nokia is protected by these patents include inventions that allowed the user experience very compelling," Paul Melin, vice president in charge of Nokia's intellectual property.
Nokia claims of two patents that the finger relative to a touch screen to navigate the content on cell phones "clearing gesture", and the technology to store an application that allows real-time using the services.
Mr. Melin said Nokia patents was filed more than 10 years to protect the two technologies. Nokia said it sued Apple in London, the Supreme Court of The Hague Dusseldorf and Mannheim, Germany, in the district courts and district courts. Suit alleges that Apple iPad iPhone inadequate, iPod devices and the use of Nokia technology.
Europe, Alan Hely, Apple spokeswoman did not immediately respond to e-mail and telephone. Nokia asked to comment on cases
Nokia over the past three years the price of the iPhone's success, it still has the highest market share in global mobile phone came on. But it is a line of smartphones that compete for consumer attention and sales of the iPhone juggernaut may slow have struggled to develop.
In October 2009, Nokia sued in U. S. U.S. District Court in Delaware and Wisconsin, Apple, and filed a complaint with the U. S. International Trade Commission. Last December, Apple hit back, saying that the Finnish company had diverted 13 Apple technologies.
Peter Chrocziel, intellectual property lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Munich said that the countries of Nokia to bring potential benefits to the litigants claim by presenting a general strategy was used.
Streamlined process, through intellectual property claims of Germany than the U.S. are usually resolved quickly, usually within 12 to 18 months, Mr. Chrocziel said.
Dutch court to stop cross-border IP issues have been known cases, which will amplify the impact of judicial decisions. Nokia legal discovery in the court of the United Kingdom, continental Europe Apple, which can detect the useful information is not available through a screening process will allow.
"In the United States, intellectual property claims never reach court are dealt with before," said Chrocziel. "But in Europe, is the opposite."
The most recent series of lawsuits Mr. Chrocziel said, mobile phone industry is a general pattern of growing litigiousness, the increasing technical complexity of equipment and handset manufacturers among the toughest business environment is part of the reason.
Smartphone 1000 represents one or more individual patents, Mr. Chrocziel said.
"That means a company, if you prefer, usually one or more patents in its portfolio that can be used to find a competitor could cause problems, he said.
Nokia lawsuits filed by his arch-rival Apple Computer and Devices CUPERTINO, Calif., who in 2007 entered the mobile phone business with the iPhone, one device that has redefined the smartphone maker based in royalty payments from the most recent demand are .
"Nokia is protected by these patents include inventions that allowed the user experience very compelling," Paul Melin, vice president in charge of Nokia's intellectual property.
Nokia claims of two patents that the finger relative to a touch screen to navigate the content on cell phones "clearing gesture", and the technology to store an application that allows real-time using the services.
Mr. Melin said Nokia patents was filed more than 10 years to protect the two technologies. Nokia said it sued Apple in London, the Supreme Court of The Hague Dusseldorf and Mannheim, Germany, in the district courts and district courts. Suit alleges that Apple iPad iPhone inadequate, iPod devices and the use of Nokia technology.
Europe, Alan Hely, Apple spokeswoman did not immediately respond to e-mail and telephone. Nokia asked to comment on cases
Nokia over the past three years the price of the iPhone's success, it still has the highest market share in global mobile phone came on. But it is a line of smartphones that compete for consumer attention and sales of the iPhone juggernaut may slow have struggled to develop.
In October 2009, Nokia sued in U. S. U.S. District Court in Delaware and Wisconsin, Apple, and filed a complaint with the U. S. International Trade Commission. Last December, Apple hit back, saying that the Finnish company had diverted 13 Apple technologies.
Peter Chrocziel, intellectual property lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Munich said that the countries of Nokia to bring potential benefits to the litigants claim by presenting a general strategy was used.
Streamlined process, through intellectual property claims of Germany than the U.S. are usually resolved quickly, usually within 12 to 18 months, Mr. Chrocziel said.
Dutch court to stop cross-border IP issues have been known cases, which will amplify the impact of judicial decisions. Nokia legal discovery in the court of the United Kingdom, continental Europe Apple, which can detect the useful information is not available through a screening process will allow.
"In the United States, intellectual property claims never reach court are dealt with before," said Chrocziel. "But in Europe, is the opposite."
The most recent series of lawsuits Mr. Chrocziel said, mobile phone industry is a general pattern of growing litigiousness, the increasing technical complexity of equipment and handset manufacturers among the toughest business environment is part of the reason.
Smartphone 1000 represents one or more individual patents, Mr. Chrocziel said.
"That means a company, if you prefer, usually one or more patents in its portfolio that can be used to find a competitor could cause problems, he said.
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