Well, the heat doesn’t seem to just die. This time Apple suing Nokia in London over touch scrolling. According to Bloomberg:
Apple Inc., maker of the iPad tablet and iPhone, sued Nokia Oyj in the U.K. over claims that one of the Finnish company’s European patents for scrolling technology on touch-screen handsets is invalid.
The lawsuit, filed yesterday in the High Court in London, challenges one of seven Nokia patents asserted against Apple in a September 2010 lawsuit in Dusseldorf, Germany, Nokia spokesman Mark Durrant said today in an e-mail.
Nokia, the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones, has lost market share to competitors with more features on their devices. The company’s lawsuits against Apple in the U.S., U.K., Germany and the Netherlands, accuse the Cupertino, California-based company of violating 37 patents.
“Nokia is confident that all of the 37 patents it has asserted against Apple” are valid, Durrant said in the e-mail. “We are examining the filing and will take whatever actions are needed to protect our rights.”
Apple has earlier sued Espoo, Finland-based Nokia in the U.S. and U.K., and claims the company is trying to use the courts to force access to Apple’s iPhone technology.
Kristin Huguet, a spokeswoman for Apple in Cupertino, declined to comment.
The case is Apple Inc. v. Nokia Corp., HC11C00093, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division (London).
Bruce Sewell, Apple’s general counsel, quoted the usual quote “companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours” (it can be found HERE). Now if someone may politely ask Apple where did IT’S TOUCH SCROLLING FEATURE came into existence? If you ask the veterans, they would point at an entity long lost, known as Palm.
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Bruce Sewell, Apple’s general counsel, said at the time that “companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours.”
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this is just hilarious
i’d say it’s the everyday situation of bigger companies…
if we would search just for 5 minutes we can find out that almost every company ( which has something to do with mobile phones ) sued an other company or got sued
Yeah AJ.
Anyone could sue Apple for reinventing video calls as brand new…
lol you here