Nokia has overpowered Apple with a flood of additional lawsuits before various courts in a total of eleven countries. So now the courts of 11 countries are behind Apple? Does that sound familiar? Don? Bollywood? Nevermind. The Finnish company (which is Nokia) also wants to obtain a TOTAL import stop for the iPhone and iPad from the US commercial agency.
Shortly after announcing the first patent complaints against Apple, Nokia has significantly expanded the legal process. In the meantime, complaints were filed in nine other countries, as the former mobile phone market leader announced. In addition to the US and Germany, the lawsuits are also filed in Finland, Great Britain, Sweden, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Hong Kong and Japan. That is a lot. Overall, Nokia has claimed that Apple infringed 40 patents around "screen, user interface, software, antennas, chipsets and video coding".
Nokia wants to stop the import for iPhone and iPad
In an additional complaint , the Finnish company is launching eight patents in the US Trade Commission against Apple and calls for a TOTAL ban on imports and sales of "certain electronic devices," including iPhone and iPad. Sounds so Trump-ish.
The complaint follows patent negotiations for patent licensing. Apple recently emphasized that Nokia refused to license them on a fair basis and used the "tactics of a patent troll". By dividing the patent portfolio among patent users, Nokia is attempting to "eliminate exorbitant sales" in an anti-competitive way.
Nokia among the defendants
Apple has therefore filed a lawsuit against several patent attorneys, such as Acacia and Core Wirelesse, which the iPhone manufacturers conspired with Nokia - as well as the circumvention of the licensing of standardized patents (SEPs) on fair terms (FRAND). Meanwhile, the US company added Nokia itself to the list of defendants, as a formal defect had been rejected. Apple is likely to submit a revised version of the lawsuit. Nokia and Apple already led from 2009 to 2011 a patent dispute, which was finally concluded with a license agreement.
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