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Nokia sues Apple over technology patent dispute

Thursday, 22 Dec 2016 09:37:33

The patents include displays, user interfaces, software, antennas, chipsets and video coding. (Flickr: Simon Pearson)

Former mobile phone giant Nokia has announced it is suing Apple, accusing the iPhone maker of violating 32 technology patents.

The Finnish company's lawsuits, filed in three courts in Germany — Dusseldorf, Mannheim and Munich — and the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, cover patents for technologies including displays, user interfaces, software, antennas, chipsets and video coding.

"Since agreeing a license covering some patents from the Nokia Technologies portfolio in 2011, Apple has declined subsequent offers made by Nokia to license other of its patented inventions which are used by many of Apple's products," Nokia said in a statement.

Nokia's head of patent business Ilkka Rahnasto said in the statement: "Nokia has created or contributed to many of the fundamental technologies used in today's mobile devices, including Apple products".

"After several years of negotiations trying to reach agreement to cover Apple's use of these patents, we are now taking action to defend our rights."

Meanwhile, Apple sued Acacia Research and Conversant Intellectual Property Management on Tuesday, accusing them of colluding with Nokia to extract and extort exorbitant revenues unfairly and anti-competitively from Apple.

Apple and Acacia did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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