Nokia Sues Amazon From US To India Over Streaming-Tech Patents (bloomberg.com) 9
Nokia sued Amazon in courts across three continents, alleging the e-commerce giant uses its technologies in streaming services and devices without authorization. From a report: The suits were filed in the US, Germany, India, the UK, and the European Unified Patent Court, Arvin Patel, Nokia's Chief Licensing Officer said in a statement on the company's website. Separately, a suit was also filed against HP in the US over video-related technologies, he said.
Why the pay walled source? (Score:1)
No actually patent numbers, sadly.
When times are tough... (Score:3)
Why was this marked "Troll"? (Score:2)
The comment seems valid to me.
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Nokia is not the biggest company as they once were but I think they own Bell Labs now if I'm not mistaken. That might be a factor.
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TFA is a bit vague about exactly what the patents cover, but the Nokia blog post hints at video formats like H.265.
To become part of a standard like H.265, patents have to be offered on a fair and non-discriminatory basis. In other words, reasonable cost and no blocking your competitors just because.
Often no money changes hands, companies simply do a patent swap instead where they cross licence each others technology. I guess Amazon doesn't have anything that Nokia wants.
So this might not be BS if it is a v
Put up a go fund me (Score:1)
Put up a go fund me, I'd happily contribute to a law suite against HP.
The Nokia Suing is not the one that made phones (Score:3)
The Nokia that is suing Amazon is not the Nokia that makes Nokia phones. As a matter of fact, the company that makes Nokia Phones is not Nokia, rather, is HMD Global*, and it licenses the brand from Nokia.
The Nokia Suing Amazon is the Nokia that makes Telecom Gear (think GPON, 10GPON, Telco routers, telco Datacom gear, 4-5G core, 4-5G basestations, DWDM gear, etc). That company is the Voltron of telecoms. Consisting of:
The Telecom part of the nokia of old (the one that made phones)
The telecom part of Siemens
The Telecom part of Motorola.
The company formerly known as Alcatel-Lucent (the merger of, well, Alcatel and Lucent**).
I am too lazy to research the patent numbers, and see where the patents originated (Nokia, Lucent, Alcatel, Siemens, Motorola), but one thing is for sure, Nokia is hardly a "non practicing entity" (the PC name for a patent troll). That is to say, they sunk good R&D £€¥$ into the patents, probably even used some of them in their own products, and licensed others to some other streamers... So.. let's see how this goes.
* The consumer electronics arm of nokia is a small investor in HMD Global, the majority investor is HonHai Precision Industries, owners also of companies like sharp and belkin, and known around here as Foxconn. I guess they do not want to depend solely on assembling iPhones.
** Remember, Lucent own Bell-LAbs, creators, among other things, of Unix. Hardly a patent troll
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Re: The Nokia Suing is not the one that made phone (Score:2)
I was about to comment that it was not Nokia, but a bunch of corporate lawyers wearing Nokia's flayed skin as a suit.
But your comment, although less in the Halloween spirit, was more informative.