Nokia announced it has filed a complaint with the United States International
Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that Apple infringes Nokia patents in
virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, and computers.
The seven Nokia patents in this complaint relate to Nokia's pioneering
innovations that are now being used by Apple to create key features in its
products in the area of user interface, as well as camera, antenna and power
management technologies. These patented technologies are important to Nokia's
success as they allow better user experience, lower manufacturing costs,
smaller size and longer battery life for Nokia products.
"Nokia has been the leading developer of many key technologies in small
electronic devices" said
Nokia. "This action is about protecting the results of such pioneering
development. While our litigation in
free-ride on the back of Nokia investment in wireless standards, the ITC case
filed today is about Apple's practice of building its business on Nokia's
proprietary innovation."