U.S. trade commission to investigate Nokia 3G phones
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The U.S. International Trade  Commission (ITC) said it would start an investigation of  certain Nokia 3G mobile phones based on a complaint filed by  InterDigital last month.
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Nokia (NOK1V.HE), the world&#39;s biggest  mobile phone maker, said on Tuesday the ongoing patent battle  with Qualcomm Inc.  may work against the uptake of  &quot;third-generation&quot; mobile technology.
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Nokia, the world&#39;s largest mobile phone maker, this week took legal action against two European manufacturers for allegedly infringing on technology patents and registered designs.
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But Nokia still ruled in Q3, says researcher
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By ROB WAUGH . The big innovation with Nokia's latest do-everything 3G phone is a simple one an amazingly sharp screen. The fact that the display boasts 352x416 pixels doesn't sound particularly exciting.
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Leading world mobile handset maker  Nokia (NOK1V.HE) is set to announce three new phones aimed at  business users on Monday, the International Herald Tribune  newspaper reported.
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The U.S. International Trade Commission on Thursday ordered a ban of some imported cell phone models that contain Qualcomm Inc.  chips that infringe on a Broadcom Corp.  patent.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted to launch an investigation into patent infringement claims against Nokia, whichÂ filed its own complaintÂ with the commission in August. The complaint against Nokia comes from InterDigital, a vendor of wireless technology products based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. InterDigital filed a complaint on Aug. 7 alleging that Nokia has infringed two of InterDigital's 3G (third-generation) wireless patents. InterDigitals' complaint accused Nokia of an unfair trade practice by importing 3G handsets into the U.S., and it asked the ITC to bar Nokia from importing products with the infringing technology. The ITC, in a news release Wednesday, said it has initiated an investigation into InterDigital's complaint. The commission will set a target date for completing the investigation within 45 days, the ITC said. "The ITC has not yet made any decision on the merits of the case," the commission said. Nokia, based in Finland, filed its ITC complaint Aug. 17, asking the commission to ban the import of Qualcomm chip sets that allegedly infringe on five Nokia patents. The commissionÂ banned some Qualcomm importsÂ in June, after complaints from Broadcom. A Nokia spokeswoman didn't immediately return a call seeking comment on the ITC investigation. The InterDigital patents involve algorithms for how 3G wireless signals most efficiently travel through the air, said Jack Indekeu, InterDigital's director of corporate marketing. The company has been talking with Nokia about the patent claims, he said. "We haven't moved forward," Indekeu said. "That's why we have to move in this direction." The InterDigital claims don't directly relate to the patent claims against Qualcomm, he added. "Companies that have spent the time and resources to invent technology are protecting their intellectual property," he said.
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Nokia Corp. hopes to distinguish its products and regain lost market share by leading the mobile-device market in delivering cutting-edge bells-and-whistles on its new handsets, company executives said Thursday duringhop a daylong meeting in New York with analysts.
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The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted to launch an investigation into patent infringement claims against Nokia, whichÂ filed its own complaintÂ with the commission in August.
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Nokia, the world&#39;s top cell phone  maker, has filed a patent counter-suit against Qualcomm Inc in  a Texas court, seeking damages and an injunction against the  U.S. chip maker.
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HELSINKI/WASHINGTON  - The U.S. International Trade Commission on Monday opened a hearing in a case in which U.S. chip maker Qualcomm Inc  accused Nokia  of infringing some of its patents in cellphones using the GSM technology.
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The world's top handset maker, Nokia , is set to announce a patent-licensing deal with navigation technology firm Trimble Navigation Ltd. , the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
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Finnish mobile handset maker Nokia has made a 3-D move against counterfeit batteries. In order for customers to be able to more easily identify original Nokia batteries from non-original batteries, Nokia has
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(InfoWorld) - The phone many exhibitors and attendees are talking about won't even be on display at next week's 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, the year's largest mobile industry exhibition. Software and phone developers are comparing the products they'll exhibit at the conference toÂ the iPhone, even though Apple Inc. won't be at 3GSM and the iPhone isn't available yet. Funambol Inc. plans to show off its Linux-based applications, including mobile e-mail, as an open alternative to Apple's phone, which is based on proprietary software. One handset maker, Neonode AB, says that the iPhone follows its design lead. Neonode introduced a buttonless, fully touchscreen phone in 2004 and plans to announce a new one at 3GSM. A Nokia Corp. marketing executive will sit on a panel at the conference entitled "Mobile Music: The Apple Factor." The panel could touch on the competition the iPhone will present to manufacturers such as Nokia and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB that are already selling phones that include music players. The references to the iPhone hint at the threat it poses to existing phone makers. "Because the iPod has been so successful, it's difficult to discount the carry-through success that Apple could have in the mobile arena," said Nick McQuire, an analyst with the Yankee Group. Apple announced earlier this year that the iPhone, its highly anticipated combined music player and mobile phone, will go on sale in the U.S. in June and should reach European markets in the fourth quarter. While the threat of the iPhone might loom in the background at 3GSM, Apple's arch-rival, Microsoft Corp., may plan on trying to steal center stage. Microsoft is scheduled to make an announcement Monday and some experts suspect the software giant will introduce a new version of Windows Mobile. "It's likely they'll make some form of announcement around the next iteration of Windows Mobile 5.0. The question is when it will be ready to be shipped," McQuire said. In April last year, Microsoft said it was working on the successor toÂ Windows Mobile 5.0, code-named Crossbow. Microsoft said then that the new release would include strong links to Office 2007 and Exchange 12 and an instant messaging feature. Unconfirmed reports online suggested the operating system would be introduced either late last year or early 2007. Crossbow could also feature support for VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol), although Microsoft would be unlikely to highlight that feature because some operators discourage mobile VOIP, McQuire said. Phone makers that use software from Symbian Ltd. and Research In Motion Ltd. could react to a new Windows Mobile release by highlighting their broad device portfolios, McQuire said. Operating systems like Symbian, which can enable interoperability with Microsoft back-end programs, have an advantage over Windows Mobile because they run on a wider variety of phones, he said. New handsets introduced at the conference will likely fall into two primary categories: HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) and enterprise devices, McQuire said. The HSDPA phones will be thin and have good battery life, an improvement over first generation 3G phones that were "clunky," he said. High Tech Computer Corp., Toshiba Corp. and Nokia may all introduce new handsets aimed at business users. With the increased use of phones by business users to access corporate data comes concern over security. A number of companies including Spansion Inc., Discretix Ltd., AdaptiveMobile Ltd., McAfee Inc. and Trend Micro Inc. all plan to highlight mobile security issues and products. In addition, more and more phones come with support for Wi-Fi, enabling services that can roam between mobile and Wi-Fi networks. A number of companies plan to introduce or exhibit products that support some facet of a converged Wi-Fi and mobile service. Boingo Wireless Inc. will introduce software for developers that will enable use of its Wi-Fi roaming network from Symbian and Linux phones. Kineto Wireless Inc. will also exhibit at the conference and Shanghai company E28 Ltd. plans to introduce its second generation of dual-mode Linux-based phones.
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The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC)&#160;said it will investigate whether Qualcomm is complying with a ban that prohibits it from importing certain chips into the U.S.The investigation is the result of a complaint that Broadcom filed with the U.S. ITC. Qualcomm is importing chips that employ a work-around of a Broadcom patent that the court ruled Qualcomm infringes. Broadcom alleges that the new technology also infringes its patent.The investigation is the latest chapter in a long-running dispute between the two chip companies. In July, the ITC ruled that Qualcomm was infringing on Broadcom patents. In a very rare decision,&#160;the ITC forbade the import of phones that included future versions of certain Qualcomm chips rather than all the offending chips because the commission decided that would have unduly damaged the economy.However,&#160;the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has since stayed that ruling.One attorney suspects that Broadcom&#39;s most recent complaint to the ITC is an effort to essentially overrule the appeals&#39; court stay.&quot;This enforcement proceeding represents a crafty way for Broadcom to get around the court&#39;s stay and go directly to the ITC to give some teeth to the remedy provided by the ITC,&quot; said Lyle Vander Schaaf, an attorney at Bryan Cave and a former ITC attorney.If the commission decides in Broadcom&#39;s favor, Qualcomm could face millions of dollars in penalties, he said.Broadcom said it is seeking fines and additional orders against Qualcomm.
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InterDigital claims that some of Nokia's 3G phones use technology that it has patented.