Nokia files second complaint against Apple
After yesterday's decision by the International Trade Commission that Apple isn't violating five key Nokia patents, Nokia today has hit back by claiming that they invented, well, just about everything Apple has ever made.
AppleInsider is reporting that Nokia has today launched a second complaint with the ITC saying that Apple's iPhone, iPod, iPad and Mac computers violate seven of their patents covering multi-tasking, data synchronization, positioning, call quality and the use of Bluetooth accessories.
Nokia has issued a press release in which they also say they disagree with the ITC's judgement yesterday, and "is waiting to see the full details of the ruling before deciding on the next steps in that case."
"Our latest ITC filing means we now have 46 Nokia patents in suit against Apple, many filed more than 10 years before Apple made its first iPhone," said Paul Melin, Vice President, Intellectual Property at Nokia. Nokia is also suing Apple in patent courts in Delaware in the USA, Mannheim, Dusseldorf and the Federal Patent Court in Germany, the UK High Court in London and the District Court of the Hague in the Netherlands.
It appears that about the only Apple product not first developed by Nokia is the Apple HiFi -- although, as it ran on electricity and has at least one speaker, even that could be theirs.
