It was just yesterday when we
looked at how there was the Phone Wars parody, where the Nokia 3310 was seemingly indestructible. Well,
something that is far more realistic
today has hit the news, which would
be Nokia bringing HTC to court over a
disputed 32 patents. According to
Foss Patents, Nokia wants to sue HTC over a total of 32 patents across US
as well as Europe. The kind of ground
that these patents will cover include
a range of technologies from
“calendar-display apparatus, and
associated method, for a mobile terminal” to “method of operating a
navigation system using images” and
“communication network terminal supporting a plurality of
applications”. A quartet of court hearings, which
will include three full trials, have been
scheduled to hear Nokia’s case
against HTC before 2012 is over –
meaning there are just a six more
weeks or so before everything is done in the courtroom. Foss
intellectual property analyst, Florian
Mueller, claims that the Taiwanese
manufacturer might be backed into a
corner here, saying, “Based on how
both parties fared against Apple, it’s easy to see that Nokia will win this
and will most likely receive a higher
per-unit royalty from HTC than Apple
receives from HTC.” Could we be
looking at a huge payday for Nokia
this time around?
www.ubergizmo.com/2012/11/nokia-goes-to-court-with-htc-over-32-patents/