Nokia counters with patent lawsuit against Qualcomm
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Nokia and Qualcomm have entered a new round in their high-stakes fight over patent royalties, with the Finnish handset maker landing its first counter-punch.
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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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But Nokia still ruled in Q3, says researcher
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A U.S. court on Monday denied a  Qualcomm Inc.  request for a preliminary injunction in  a legal dispute with rival chip maker Broadcom Corp. ,  Broadcom said.
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Nokia Oyj , the world's top mobile phone maker, 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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Qualcomm and Broadcom have settled some of their patent claims against each other, avoiding a jury trial scheduled to begin next month, Qualcomm said on Friday. They remainÂ deadlocked over other patents, however, and still face several potential trials this year.
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Judge says competitor Maxim may have infringed on Qualcomm's patents but won't bar sales of contested cell phone chips.
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Nokia said Tuesday that the US International Trade Commission would begin investigating its claims of unfair business practices and patent infringement against Qualcomm.
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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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Wireless technology company Qualcomm  Inc.  on Wednesday said it had filed a suit against  Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE), alleging the  company had infringed on two Qualcomm patents in Britain.
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After Qualcomm rejected a $20 million payment from Nokia made with the intention of extending a license to use the network chipset provider's WCDMA technologies, Nokia responded this morning by countersuing Qualcomm. It claims some of the underlying technology in Qualcomm's chipsets actually belongs to Nokia.
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(InfoWorld) - Qualcomm and Broadcom have settled some of their patent claims against each other, avoiding a jury trial scheduled to begin next month, Qualcomm said on Friday. They remainÂ deadlocked over other patents, however, and still face several potential trials this year. The chip makers have been battling in court since 2005, whenÂ Broadcom accusedÂ Qualcomm of infringing 10 of its technology patents.Â Qualcomm respondedÂ with its own infringement suit and the companies have been at loggerheads ever since. They have now agreed to dismiss all claims against each other relating to two of Broadcom's patents and two of Qualcomm's patents, Qualcomm said. The agreement means that one of their infringement lawsuits in San Diego Federal Court will be dropped, and a trial scheduled there for March 5 has been dismissed, Qualcomm said. Other cases in San Diego and in Orange County, California, remain unresolved, and the companies still have at least four other jury trials scheduled this year, Qualcomm said. Broadcom could not immediately be reached for comment on the matter. Separately, Qualcomm said an antitrust suit brought against it and several other technology companies by Golden Bridge Technology had been dismissed on Feb. 16. The suit, which also named Motorola, Nokia, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic, and the former Lucent Technologies, accused the companies of conspiring to exclude Golden Bridge's technology from a wireless industry standard. The court determined that there was no evidence that the defendants had acted improperly, according to Qualcomm. Golden Bridge Technology could not immediately be reached.
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Qualcomm is shipping four new wireless chip sets that do not infringe on a video encoding patent held by competitor Broadcom. Qualcomm expects the WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) handsets containing the chips to go on sale in the U.S. by April, it said Wednesday.The announcement comes two days after a&#160;U.S. federal judge issued an injunction&#160;that stops Qualcomm from selling some wireless chipsets found to infringe on the Broadcom patent.Under a special provision of the injunction, Qualcomm can continue to use Broadcom&#39;s patented technology in some existing QChat push-to-talk and 1xEV-DO (Evolution-Data Only) products through Jan. 31, 2009, as long as it pays royalties to Broadcom. New products, or existing products sold to new customers, are not covered by the automatic license.Qualcomm is still developing workarounds for&#160;infringing technology included in the QChat and 1xEV-DO products, it said.Broadcom won a patent infringement suit against Qualcomm&#160;in May and was awarded $19.6 million in damages. However, Broadcom said the injunction -- which only applies to chip sets sold in the U.S. -- was far more important than the money.Monday&#39;s injunction, issued in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, also prohibits Qualcomm from some marketing and customer support activities related to WCDMA and EV-DO chips.Qualcomm said it still wants further clarification on some aspects of the injunction, saying it could affect the company&#39;s product development. The company said it is also considering filing an appeal or for a stay of the injunction.The two companies still have other patent infringement and antitrust claims pending.&#160;
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The U.S. International Trade Commission has denied Qualcomm Inc.'s  request to stay an order banning imports of new phone models with Qualcomm chips the trade agency said infringe a Broadcom Corp.  patent, Broadcom said on Friday.
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Competitors say industry leader, Nokia, is still vulnerable to the vagaries of the cellphone business, with its fickle consumers and aggressive challengers.
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(InfoWorld) - Nokia and Qualcomm have entered a new round in their high-stakes fight over patent royalties, with the Finnish handset maker landing its first counter-punch. The Finnish company has responded to theÂ patent infringement lawsuit filed by QualcommÂ in the Western District of Wisconsin on April 2 by claiming that its products aren't infringing, and filing its first patent counter-suit against the U.S. chip company, Nokia said Thursday. Nokia's suit seeks damages and also an injunction against certain of Qualcomm's chip sets. "We're confident that our products don't infringe the two Qualcomm patents that are in suit and, in fact, we believe these patents are invalid," a Nokia spokeswoman said. The initial lawsuit filed by Qualcomm in Wisconsin concerns two patents covering speech encoders used in certain GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) mobile phones to digitize audio signals for transmission. In its counter-suit,Â Nokia accuses Qualcomm of infringingÂ six of its patents, relating primarily to multiband and multimode technologies that reduce handset and chip set size, cost, and power consumption. Standards bodies divide patents touching on the technologies they define into two categories: those essential to a standards-compliant product, and those that only cover a particular implementation of the standard. The six patents Nokia accuses Qualcomm of infringing are implementation patents, the spokeswoman said. Companies with essential patents included in a standard agree to license the technology under fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms, but the companies can decide whether or not to license implementation patents to others, she said. Qualcomm had no agreement to use the six Nokia implementation patents, she said. Qualcomm has copied these innovations and made them available to its chip set customers, according to the Nokia spokeswoman. In April, Qualcomm filed another lawsuit against Nokia in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The separate lawsuit deals with three patents related to the downloading of applications and other digital content over GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) or EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) networks, two technologies for speeding the transmission of packet data in GSM networks. The Nokia spokeswoman declined to comment on the Texas lawsuit. Over the past 19 months, Qualcomm has filed 11 patent litigation cases against Nokia but in none of these cases has the company had any success, according to the spokeswoman. Legal disputes over mobile phone patents have grown in recent years, largely because of opportunities to generate significant revenue from licensing inventions to others. Numerous patent licensing disputes have accompanied mobile phone technologies such as GSM and WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), and are expected to flow from 4G (fourth-generation) systems now under development. In a interviewÂ earlier this month, Bill Davidson, senior vice president of investor relations and international marketing at Qualcomm, said the company has more than 1,000 essential patents for OFDM, OFDMA (OFDM Access) and MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) technologies, all of which form the foundation of new 4G technologies, whether WiMax, LTE (Long-Term Evolution) or UMB (Ultra Mobile Broadband). Â
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The U.S. International  Trade Commission on Monday opened a hearing in a case in which  U.S. chip maker Qualcomm Inc  accused Nokia (NOK1V.HE)  of infringing some of its patents in cellphones using the GSM  technology.