It's war! Nokia issues MORE lawsuits against Apple in smartphone patent battle
- Nokia's lawsuits cover patents for displays, user interfaces, software, antennas, chipsets and video coding
- Apple sued Acacia Research Corp and Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc on Tuesday
- iPhone maker accused them of colluding with Nokia to extract and extort exorbitant revenues unfairly and anticompetitively from Apple
Nokia Corp had said on Wednesday it was suing Apple, accusing the iPhone maker of violating 32 technology patents - and has now filed 40 patents suits in 11 countries.
Nokia shares were down nearly 5 percent at 4.496 euros on Thursday as analysts warned a legal battle with Apple could hold up royalty payments that are vital to shoring up the Finnish company's profits.
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Filed in courts in Dusseldorf, Mannheim and Munich, and the Eastern District of Texas, it covers patents for displays, user interfaces, software, antennas, chipsets and video coding.
Nokia's lawsuit stems from a disagreement between Apple and Nokia over licensing fees for Nokia's technology.
Nokia claims that since agreeing to a license covering some patents in 2011, Apple has declined subsequent offers to license its technology, which it says are used in many of Apple's products.
Following the acquisition of NSN in 2013 and Alcatel-Lucent in 2016, Nokia owns three valuable portfolios of intellectual property.
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'Built on more than EUR 115 billion invested in R&D over the past twenty years, our tens of thousands of patents cover many important technologies used in smartphones, tablets, personal computers and similar devices,' the firm said.
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.
Apple sued Acacia Research Corp and Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc on Tuesday.
It accused them of colluding with Nokia to extract and extort exorbitant revenues unfairly and anti competitively from Apple.
The legal action by Nokia and iPhone maker Apple appear to mark a revival of the 'smartphone patent wars' that began five years ago, when Apple filed a series of patent infringement cases against Samsung Electronics around the world, with wins and losses on both sides.
Nokia, once the world's dominant cellphone maker, missed out on the transition to smartphones triggered by Apple's introduction of the iPhone in 2007.
The Finnish company sold its handset business to Microsoft (MSFT.O) two years ago, leaving it with its telecom network equipment business and a patent portfolio.
But this year, Microsoft sold its Nokia feature phone business to a new company called HMD Global and Nokia agreed to a 10-year licensing deal with HMD, which continues to market low-cost Nokia phones and plans to introduce new Nokia smartphone models in 2017.
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Nokia's lawsuits, filed in courts in Dusseldorf, Mannheim and Munich, Germany and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, cover patents for displays, user interfaces, software, antennas, chipsets and video coding.
Nokia claims that through its investments in research and development, it has contributed many fundamental technologies used in Apple's 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,' Ilkka Rahnasto, head of patent business at Nokia, said in a statement.
'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.
Apple and Acacia did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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