Nokia Sues Apple Regarding iPhone Technology

Adam DesAutels on 10 23, 2009

Nokia iPhoneNokia legal has filled a complaint against Apple with the Federal District Court in Delaware. Nokia is saying that Apple’s iPhone infringes Nokia patents for GSM, UMTS, and wireless LAN standards. According to Mashable and Reuters, this lawsuit could cost Apple up to $1 billion dollars. WOW!

Apple, as a latecomer to the cell phone market, has achieved 15 percent share of the cell phone market.  Nokia has allegedly attempted to make several price offers to Apple, all in ending in decline.

Read the official Nokia press release here.

Quote from CrunchGear:

“Nokia has been struggling to gain traction in the high-end phone market now that we live in an iPhone world and this may be a last ditch effort to derail futre models or, assuming they’re going for a bit more mercenary approach, cash in on some of the iPhone’s success. Our in-house guy with a law degree/MobileCrunch intern Jeremy is on the case.”

Follow-up article by CrunchGear (10/26/2009): LawCrunch: Some (more) ideas on why Nokia sued Apple

Funny coincidence that Nokia made this public the same day (October 22, 2009) Apple’s new “I’m a mac” and “I’m a PC” commercial hit YouTube . Karma?

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