Nokia's new fight with InterDigital

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Nokia's new fight with InterDigital

Written by Adam Shoes

Saturday, 08 March 2008 10:23

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Nokia again seems to be finding themselves in court with another company, this time it’s a little different. InterDigital from King of Prussia, PA is a tech company which owns a wide variety of patents on cell phone wireless technology, involving high speed internet and web viewing. InterDigital has several companies which already lease these patients such as Apple and RIM; Nokia is not one of them. InterDigital believes Nokia has been committing patent infringement with their headsets and technolgy they use. This seems to be a very big deal because the International Trade Commission (ITC) has gotten involved in issuing opinions and rulings and if these rulings help the court system in the UK decide if Nokia is at fault then they need to negotiate a license deal with InterDigital to be able to continue to sell their phones with this technology. See the implications if Nokia could lose after the jump...

Source: Wall Street Journal

Nokia has already lost a few disputes they have tried regarding this case in court . I would only assume all of us would love Nokia to develop a larger market in the US but this ruling could put a damper on our hopes. The ITC has the ability to ban imports of headsets to the United States that contain infringing technology. Nokia was able overcome Qualcomm on grounds similar but the downfall to this is that InterDigital has beaten Nokia in the courts before regarding its 2G technology. What can this mean if InterDigital wins in court against Nokia and Nokia dosen't sign a deal? Let’s hope it doesn’t get to that point. Nokia, fight the good fight if you feel you have a case but don’t jeopardize an opportunity to steal a large market share in the US from companies such as Motorola who have fallen off the competitive ladder.

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