Comments on: Nokia Sees Apple's Counter-suit, Files Against Virtually Everything

By: james. braselton

james. braselton — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:03:12 +0000

hi. there. yes. apple. going. vertal. every. thing. why. else. do. they. offer. the. largest. flash. memory. storage. capacity. iphone 4. 32 gb. itv. 16 gb. imac. a. 256. gb. mac. pro. 4. 512. gb ipod. touch. and. ipad. 64 gb

By: Jeff Higgins

Jeff Higgins — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:25:33 +0000

Nokia's suit preempts what Apple would have done regarding Nokia's UI, which probably infringes on Apple's IP. By combining them, Nokia has a better chance of coming to some agreement with Apple. I doubt, however, that any US court will be sympathetic to Nokia. This won't be like what happened to Microsoft in the EU.

By: Ferny

Ferny — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:03:14 +0000

Nokia is jumping the shark on this one. "We'll license our tech, but we'll also cherry pick what we want in return." That's a great way to insure your eventual decline and death.

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:42:50 +0000

Nokia must provide some evidence to avoid the case being thrown out of court before trial. There are two ways to get this evidence: 1) spend your own money, or 2) spend taxpayer money. #2 is better, hence the ITC filing.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:50:24 +0000

Can't help but laugh at the comments which come up without fail every time this story is raised... something along the lines of "Nokia is losing to Apple so they are suing".

Either Apple are infringing patents or they are not. It doesn't matter how succesful either company is!

By: frog

frog — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:13:43 +0000

Go Apple! Nokia blee their chance, iphone has been out for years now and Nokia still haven't responded.

By: Stopa

Stopa — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:13:49 +0000

This is AWESOME, cant wait to see what are those "ultimate" patents

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:38:55 +0000

@Dev,

Apple's UI patents, not it's GSM patents (does it have any?) are what is supposedly wanted by Nokia. When a company pools some patents, it doesn't mean all their patents are pooled, certainly not completely different patents.

By: dev

dev — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:33:22 +0000

Um...as pointed out every time this story is mentioned, the same "same equitable and reasonable terms" offered to "everyone else" involve cross-licenses. EVERY GSM participant cross-licenses liberally. Apple, not Nokia, is the company that wants to do something out of the ordinary regarding GSM patents. Apple is, of course, free to reject Nokia's terms, in which case, by law and treaty, they are not allowed to use those patents. Somehow, though, it is all OK, and the other guy's fault -- because we like Apple's products, we are willing to excuse their corporate boorishness.

By: Websyndicate

Websyndicate — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:04:20 +0000

This is such a bs fight. Nokia is just pissed that the iPhone is actually denting their business and basically with only 1 phone. Nokia should just step up and make a good product like the use to. They have tons of market with dedicated customers there is no reason the cant kick butt. I use to only buy nokia the went to my treo 650 than iPhone.

Apples counter suit is just to play games with Nokia. It's officially a pissing contest.

By: Dragonfly

Dragonfly — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:56:40 +0000

LOl, Would be very interesting to find out how the iPod Touch and Macs infringe on their patents. I smell desperation on Nokia's part, big time.