14 DAY TRIAL // Nokia has responded to the lawsuit that Qualcomm has filed last month with new accusations brought to the Justice. This comes after several months of legal actions that Qualcomm has initiated against the world's leading mobile phone producer.
Nokia has been accused a month ago by Qualcomm of contravening two of the company's patents. Nokia decided to fight fire with fire, so they have also filed a complaint stating that Qualcomm has used six of their implementation patents for the GSM/WCDMA and CDMA2000 chipsets. These patents provide a great amount of benefits, although they are not essential for the chipsets.
Nokia seems to have chosen attack as a way of protecting the company against Qualcomm's legal action. "Nokia has now filed its first counter action to address Qualcomm's unauthorized use of Nokia technology. We will continue to defend ourselves and exercise all rights according to our extensive IPR portfolio", said Rick Simonson, chief financial officer at Nokia.
Moreover, this is not the first time when Qualcomm has brought Nokia to justice. Actually, "over the past 19 months Qualcomm has filed 11 patent litigation cases against Nokia seeking damages and injunctions", further declared Rick Simson.
The patents that Nokia accuses Qualcomm of having stolen allow reliable and transparent roaming for consumers as well as direct conversion technologies which make it possible to produce much smaller chipsets. For these accusations, Nokia claims damages and injunctions against the company that they say it has illegally used their chipsets.
Qualcomm has considerably evolved on the next-generation wireless communication market over the last few years. It was founded in 1985 and currently holds a position among the first 100 best-managed companies. Throughout time, it has reached the number of approximately 5,700 US patents and patent applications of CDMA and also has released technologies including WCDMA.