NOKIA gets another victory in front of QUALCOMM within the "patent war"

March 03, 2008

Nokia got its second victory in less than a week, within the so-called "patent war" maintained against Qualcomm, the biggest world microchip manufacturer for mobile telephones, once the British Supreme Tribunal disesteemed a demand filed by the Californian Company.

The Verdict gave the reason to the Finland giant, considering that the demand filed by Qualcomm in May 2006 for violation of GSM technology patents, is not valid; hence, Nokia shall not have to pay any compensation to the North American Company, informed today the Finland group by means of a communiqué.

This is the second victory in five days, gotten by the biggest world manufacturer of mobile telephones within the legal dispute maintained with Qualcomm for the intellectual property of various technology patents.

Last Thursday, The International Trade Commission from USA (ITC, in English) also disesteemed a demand filed by Qualcomm against Nokia for violation of various technology patents GSM/GPRS/Egde, when they understood that the Finish manufacturer did not violated its intellectual property rights.

"Sentences from the British Supreme Tribunal and from the ITC are another evidence that Qualcomm exaggerates his position as industrial innovator and demands compensations for patents that are not pertinent or valid", stated the Financial Director of Nokia, Rick Simonson, in a communiqué.

In 2006, Nokia and Qualcomm entered in a legal dispute over intellectual property of various patents of second and third telephony generation (GSM and WCDMA), after five years of fructiferous trade cooperation, states the Efe agency.

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