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The iPhone may well have become the consumer darling of the smartphone sector since its arrival, but a serious legal challenge from market rival Nokia Corp. could yet take some of the shine off Apple’s iconic handset.
Well and truly within Nokia\'s legal crosshairs. Image: Apple.
More pointedly, Espoo-based Nokia, the world’s biggest mobile phone manufacturer, has this week filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc. accusing the Cupertino-based gadget giant of infringing on ten Nokia technology patents without permission during the development of its popular iPhone.
“During the last two decades, Nokia has invested approximately $60 billion [USD] in research and development and built one of the wireless industry’s strongest and broadest IPR portfolios, with over 10,000 patent families,” outlined Nokia Corp. in an official statement.
Further to that statement, Nokia vice president for Legal & Intellectual Property, Ilkka Rahnasto, said Apple’s refusal “to agree appropriate terms for Nokia’s intellectual property,” left the iPhone maker guilty of “attempting to get a free ride on the back of Nokia’s innovation.”
Nokia’s patent infringement lawsuit, which was filed in a federal court in Delaware on Thursday, covers patents connected to GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN standards, speech coding, wireless data movement, and security and encryption technologies.
Nokia has not yet revealed a dollar amount with regard to monetary damages being sought from Apple in the lawsuit.
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