Another lawsuit: Nokia moves to spoil BREW, MediaFLO parties
Story posted: June 11, 2007 - 1:34 pm EDT
If you were wondering whether Nokia Corp. would take advantage of last week’s potentially bruising decision by the U.S. International Trade Commission to ban new 3G handsets bearing Qualcomm Inc.’s chips, this news just in:
Nokia filed countersuits against Qualcomm in the Eastern District of Texas court, alleging that Qualcomm uses six Nokia patents in its MediaFLO and BREW technologies. Nokia seeks damages and injunctive relief in its counter-assertions to a suit originally filed in that court by Qualcomm on April 2.
“Nokia is confident that the Qualcomm patents are invalid … based on the alleged inventions having been patented or published by other companies, including...
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