U.S. ITC to investigate Nokia’s patent case against Apple

By on May 27, 2011 at 10:00 PM
Business May 27, 2011

The United States International Trade Commission said Thursday that it will re-investigate patent infringement claims that Nokia filed against Apple in May 2010. In March, an ITC panel ruled that Apple did not infringe on Nokia’s patents related to speech and data transmission, device positioning, and antenna configurations, and this time around it will only examine two of the five patents named in the original case. That’s just a fraction of the patent suits Nokia has filed against the Cupertino-based company, though. Paul Melin, Nokia’s vice president of intellectual property, said Nokia now has 46 patent suits open against Apple as of March, when Nokia claimed the iPhone maker was infringing on seven additional patents.

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  • Anonymous

    I wonder if Nokia gets a piece of Microsoft’s patent pool with it’s licensing of Windows Phone 7. That would surely give them some more ammo, not that I support them in thIs..

  • Anonymous

    “this time around it will only examine two of the five patents named in the original case. ”

    This is the pertinent point. Despite the headline, 3 of Nokia’s claims have been struck down.

  • knarf

    I don’t mind one company suing another company for infringing on it’s patent; however, what’s curious if Nokia had this type of technology why didn’t they put it into play?  Why was it sitting on the shelf?  Now another company decides to bring out a similar or stolen technology to the market now you want to sue?  I personally despise Apple, but I’m glad they were able to bring certain technology to the market maybe now the other companies will get off their duff and release to great technology they’ve put away in the closet.

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