Canada-based BlackBerry Limited may be out of the mobile phone-making business, but it's certainly not out of the tech company-suing business, setting its sights on Snap Inc shortly after Facebook.
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BlackBerry Limited is on a suing spree, and the Canadian company's latest target is also its most high-profile yet. Facebook doesn't seem willing to settle either.
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This could be the beginning of an ugly legal war between BlackBerry and Nokia, as the former is disappointed to have to pay the latter $137 million.
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Samsung, Nokia and Qualcomm have been trying for years to squeeze money out of Apple in patent lawsuits, with a university ultimately hitting the jackpot.
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Nokia may have taken a (far too) long break from mobile phone production in recent years, but it never gave up on a very robust patent collection that’s been reaping continuing royalties from companies like Apple, HTC or Samsung.
The fallen Finnish tech giant, which is finally returning to consumer-oriented hardware manufacturing and distribution through an intermediary in a few months, settled one of the industry’s first major infringement disputes way back in 2011.
Apple then agreed to pay Nokia a no doubt generous undisclosed one-time sum of money, plus regular licensing fees, and the two bitter rivals all of a sudden made peace. But according to the Cupertino-based profit-generating machine, Microsoft’s former subsidiary got greedy.
Remember that no-name Acacia Research company which managed to squeeze $22 million out of Apple in a Texas lawsuit a little while ago? The iPhone makers argue Nokia actually “conspired” with the notorious patent hoarder, as well as another little known licensing firm called Conversant, to “use unfair and anticompetitive patent assertions to improperly tax the innovations of cell phone makers.”
Hence, Apple will attempt to remedy a “continuing anticompetitive scheme”, and stop Nokia from “extracting and extorting exorbitant revenues” in a US court of law.
In response, Nokia just filed a “number” of complaints against Apple on both US and German shores, on the traditional patent infringement allegation. Apparently, Cupertino “declined subsequent offers made by Nokia to license other of its patented inventions which are used by many of Apple’s products” since striking the first such agreement half a decade back, and therefore, new compensations might be in store. This sounds like the beginning of another ugly and potentially lengthy legal discord, so buckle up, grab your popcorn, and forget all about the Christmas spirit.
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You lose some, and then you win some. It’s been like that for many, many years on the so-called smartphone patent wars front, and while a number of combatants have backed out or reached out-of-court settlements, Apple continues to seek damages from arch-rival and occasional business partner Samsung, as smaller outfits do the same unto the world’s largest technology company.Seeing as how the never-ending legal battle between the top two smartphone OEMs is as much if not more about pride and bragging rights as money, news of an unfavorable February verdict being reversed by the US Court ...
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While the nearly decade-old smartphone patent wars between the industry’s heavyweights have largely drawn to an end, making way less headlines than they used to in any case, a few tech giants still need to face frequent copyright infringement allegations from much smaller companies with only one purpose.Apple is perhaps the easiest target of all, and the likeliest to settle ...
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The Eastern Texas District Court in Tyler, one infamous for its plentiful decisions in favor of large patent holding firms, has put another verdict in the win column for a subsidiary of Acacia Research Corp.A federal jury ruled that Apple has to pay the company $22.1 million for willfully infringing upon a patent related to cellular networks. Infinite Loop, the jury felt, failed to invalidate the patent concerned in its arguments. A finding of willful infringement allows the ...
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