Apple Counter-Sues Nokia Over Patents

adeelarshad82 writes "About two months ago Nokia sued Apple for infringing Nokia patents in its iPhone. The 10 patents in the lawsuit, filed in the US state of Delaware, relate to technologies fundamental for devices using GSM, UMTS and/or local area network (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. In the latest development to the case, Apple said Friday that it had filed its own suit against Nokia, countering Nokia's claims of patent infringement with its own."

Comments

Re:AM I reading the subtext right?

[sznupi]

Nokia contributed greatly to the development of those standards. As I understand you expect they hand it over for everybody to use without, say, expectation of mutual recognition?

Re:maybe they should just pay up

[jipn4]

You can look that up yourself; the actual source of those technologies can be found mostly under those wikipedia entries.

I put the term "stolen" in quotes because that is the term Apple fanboys like to use when other companies adopt technologies that Apple has popularized; the actual term is "copying", and that's OK. It is particularly OK because most of what makes the iPhone what it is didn't even come from Apple.

Re:Nokia is making a mockery of all Finns

[aristotle-dude]

My mistake. Nokia's patents are equally ridiculous as they are trying to patent Wifi use on a mobile device. The device is irrelevant.

Re:Nokia is making a mockery of all Finns

[aristotle-dude]

Just ignore him, he states he's a Finn, but it was only the other week that he was a Canadian:

So, it is impossible for me to be both? I was born in Finland and I have citizenship there. I'm also a Canadian citizen. People can be dual-citizens you know.

I got the patents wrong and I'm not afraid to admit that mistake. Why don't you sign up for an account Mr. Coward? Nokia is trying to patent Wifi on a cellphone and a bunch of other obvious things that anyone would likely stumble across naturally. Nokia is just trying to protect their cartel.