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Apple and Nokia duke it out, again.
SMARTPHONE RIVALS Apple and Nokia look set for a long legal wrangle over an ongoing patent tussle.
According to Reuters, the dispute comes as both companies are aiming for a court hearing in the US in 2012 to put the final nails in their respective lawsuits, but this looks to roll on and on.
Nokia first sued Apple in October of last year for allegedly infringing ten patents. Apple countersued with nine patent infringement allegations of its own and requested that the US International Trade Commission (ITC) stops Nokia from selling its allegedly infringing hardware. The ITC said it would independently adjudicate and look into both Apple's and Nokia's complaints.
Apple has been throwing around patent infringement suits as though they have been going out of fashion recently. Last week Jobs' Mob sued HTC Corp, accusing it of 20 Iphone patent infringements.
Apple's timing is not surprising given how quickly the smartphone market is expanding this year. Companies are battling intellectual infringement suits like trading cards or top trumps in the hope of generating yet another revenue stream for their businesses. µ
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Just how much more productive it be to co-operate, cross licensing deals could be agreed on, think of the products that could be made if we could just,
Work Together!
How many projects never get off the ground, because someone says "but Apple /Nokia/etc do something similar".
Wait! I know a country that doesn't care a hoot about patents-China, Better watch out Steve Jobs, your running out of time!
Perhaps this is partly a game that has to be performed before all the cross licensing deals to come.
is apple now the enemy?
They are going to war with everyone's allies. That puts them firmly in the "evil dictator" role in my film.
Since all signs point to Apple not stopping its patent rampage (which seems to just target more and more manufacturers), why don't:
HTC
Google
Nokia
Motorola
Sony Ericsson
Samsung
LG
form a Stop Apple Consortium (SAC), pool their resources, and put Apple back in its place (last). I am sure that they could use some of the $40 B carrot that Jobs is waiving at them, temptingly. Cooperation is a Good Thing (worked during WWII, anyways).
Afterwards, they can start on Microsoft...
hopefully nokia wins so apple can take the phone out of iphone and just sell their gizmo as a touch device only or license from Nokia or even do cross licensing. at least apple and nokia are on the same grounds, but apple bullying a small company like htc. i wonder if htc licensed the gsm and other radio patents that nokia claims that apple didn't.
Come on, this isn't anything important, it's more like female mud wrestling.
It's catfighting with some bitchslapping thrown in.
You know, the kind where you stay and watch a bit, then go on with your life.
Because it'll go on forever anyway, and it's only for the gallery.