Nokia Sues Apple Over Technology Used in IPhone, IPad

[her209]

http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...-technology-used-in-iphone-ipad-update4-.html

 

[DivideBYZero]

Heh.

 

[TheWart]

And the patent wars rage on...with the IP lawyers winning yet again lol.

 

[pm]

It certainly had an impact on AAPL's stock price today.

Still, I have some experience with patent litigation (I was an expert for a defense team for one about 14 years ago) and it usually seems like a fair bit of posturing followed by a settlement. We'll see how this one goes, but it's following the usual pattern - intial suit with a ton of patents and a request for injunction, counter-suit, expansion of initial suit. Now if it continues the usual high tech pattern, it just will simmer for a while and then settle before it hits the courts.

If there's one thing that I liked it's that Nokia sued in Delware and not some obscure county in Texas. That whole game of filing high-tech suits in the middle-of-nowhere Texas always irritated me for the sheer bizarre rigged-system aspect of it.

 

[theeedude]

Couldn't have happened to a nicer company