Nokia Sues HTC, RIM and Viewsonic 146
angry tapir writes "Nokia has filed claims in the U.S. and Germany saying that products from HTC, Research In Motion (RIM) and ViewSonic infringe a number of the company's patents. Nokia has filed actions against all three companies in Mannheim's and Munich's respective regional courts. Nokia has also filed complaints against HTC before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), the Federal District Court of Delaware and the regional court in Düsseldorf. RIM will also have to dispatch its lawyers to Düsseldorf for a Nokia lawsuit filed there, while ViewSonic's legal team have to defend the company against a suit in Delaware."
Does anyone have a global map of this? (Score:5, Insightful)
I can't keep track of all these lawsuits anymore. I just keep picturing an image of the globe with thousands of missile tracks as the world's tech companies try to obliterate each other with patents.
Sweet deal for Microsoft (Score:5, Insightful)
Microsoft cannot sue Android makers directly, because they all already paying Microsoft for the bogo patents. But since MS essentially owns Nokia, Microsoft gets to double dip.
Re:Confirmation (Score:3, Insightful)
Are you trolling, or just stupid?
Apple has paid Nokia a hefty sum in addition to ongoing royalties to settle the patent case out of court.
The stages of life. (Score:5, Insightful)
Imitate
Innovate
Litigate
Disintegrate
Huge expensive quagmire (Score:4, Insightful)
This is the results of Apple's attempt to win in the courts rather than the marketplace.
When Steve Jobs said he would "go nuclear" to stop other companies from making tablet computers, he failed to understand every other corporation out there is also armed.
That's why sometimes it's so difficult for me to believe Steve Jobs had anything more than a hipster's level understanding of Buddhism. This stuff is beginner's level Karma knowledge- you reap what you sow.
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Re:Not News (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Confirmation (Score:4, Insightful)
Maybe, but posting misguiding rage comics and lame graphics which omit the big picture does not make a good discussion.
For example, AAPL went from $34 when Jobs took over in 1998 to 14 in 2003 under him as CEO. Did that Jobs was a sucky CEO and should have been fired in 2003 based on a rage comic on it's stock by a immature lame, armchair joker analyst like you who knows nothing about companies except to look up the stock price on Yahoo Finance? Turnarounds take time, Nokia had it's head under the sand till he took over. More details here http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_24/b4232056703101.htm [businessweek.com]
Re:Confirmation (Score:2, Insightful)
NOK is dead
MS and Apple will prop them up as long as they're needed.
The MS/Apple collusion was allowed to obtain Nortel patents based on a FRAND agreement. Nokia was the axis partner intentionally excluded from the consortium to give them the freedom to do the patent trolling. Microsoft has a long history of using proxies this way, especially companies with nothing left to lose.
Re:nokia may have a case (Score:5, Insightful)
Once-innovative companies that have passed their peak always seem to go down in a blaze of shrill patent lawsuit "glory". They deserve to be called patent trolls when they switch business models like that.