According to the latest rumors Nokia, the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, is suing Apple for infringing patents on mobile phone technology used in iPhone. The Cupertino company has also been accused of “trying to get a free ride on the back of Nokia’s innovation”.
The patents used without permission from Apple would be ten in all and concern strategic technologies for the use of GSM, UMTS and Wi-Fi protocols, as well as the wireless transmission of data and codes of languages.
During the last twenty years, Nokia had invested about 40bn Euros (£36.2bn; $60bn) on research and development. Despite this, Nokia has seen its first quarterly loss in a decade amid falling sales (from 41% to 38%). Analysts said that this poor results had come partly as customers turned from Nokia mobile phones to the iPhone and RIM’s Blackberry.
These same analysts have estimated that the Finnish industrial giant could get to ask Apple the amount of one million dollars in damages.
Apple for the moment did not comment on the news.
Source of the news: iWikiPhone – iPhone News