Alongside #Nokia, #Qualcomm also wants to ban #Apple #iPhone in the #US
Earlier this year, United States’ International Trade Commission (ITC) decided to investigate Nokia’s complaint against Apple, and consider an import ban on iPhone and iPad devices in the US. After...
View Article#Nokia and #Apple settle all litigation, sign patent license and business...
The Nokia-Apple Patent War 2.0 is over. This morning Nokia announced that it reached a patent-licensing and collaboration agreement with Apple. Nokia and Apple settled all litigation, and it seems they...
View ArticleFinnish analyst: #Nokia to annually receive around €500 million in royalties...
Yesterday, Nokia surprised us all with the announcement that they settled all litigation with Apple, and signed a patent licencing and Business collaboration agreement with Apple. Nokia announced that...
View ArticleNummela: We are working on different camera partnerships. Substantial...
CEO of HMD Arto Nummela gave an interesting interview for the South African publication GearBurn.com. Few days ago Nummela made an appearance of India’s NDTV in an great video interviw worth watching,...
View Article#Nokia & #Xiaomi signed patent licensing and cooperation agreement
Nokia announced this morning that it signed a patent and business cooperation agreement with the Chinese tech company Xiaomi. To be clear right at start, this deal does not include HMD, or Surge S1...
View Article#Apple agreed to pay one-time up-front €1.7 billion to #Nokia for patents...
In today’s financial results, Nokia mentioned that it had increased cash inflow thanks to an “up-front cash payment of approximately EUR 1.7 billion, part of which was recognized in the second quarter...
View Article#Nokia design patents transferred from #Microsoft to #HMD; Lumia Camera UI...
According to EUIPO, about 500 design patents previously owned by Microsoft Mobile Oy were transferred to its new owner, HMD Global Oy. HMD Global is a Finnish startup responsible for creating the next...
View Article#HMD submitted 5 new designs for #Nokia phones to EUIPO
This week, HMD Global submitted 5 new design patents to EUIPO. All five patents are probably for the same device, that carries the number: 004030542-0001/0002/0003/0004/0005. The patents were submitted...
View ArticleAfter arbitration with #LG, #Nokia boost revenue expectations
In 2015, Nokia and LG signed a patent licensing deal that covers 2G, 3G and 4G technologies. The royalty payment obligations were subject to a commercial arbitration that ended today. Nokia announced...
View ArticleNokia awarded $137 million in arbitration with BlackBerry
Nokia announced via a press release that the company is pleased that the International Chamber of Commerce’s International Court of Arbitration ruled in favor of Nokia in a dispute with BlackBerry...
View ArticleNokia signs patent licensing deal with Huawei
Nokia just announced that it entered into multiyear patent licensing agreement with Huawei, China’s biggest telecommunication infrastructure and smartphone company. The license is most likely related...
View ArticleXtera sues Nokia’s Alcatel Submarine Networks for patent infringement
Sub-sea telecom infrastructure provider Xtera announced last month that it took legal actions against Alcatel Submarine Networks, a company fully owned by Nokia Corporation. Xtera alleges that...
View ArticleNokia is Finland’s top patent applicant in 2017
One very important part of Nokia’s business is invention of innovative technologies and software. That part is usually kept quiet, but over the years, Nokia gave the world many technical solutions that...
View ArticleHMD Global owns few dozens of technology patents
An important aspect that every major mobile player in the world takes care of is its intellectual property, shorter IP. IP is the reason why many Chinese manufacturers don’t make their way to the West,...
View ArticlePatents: After Chinese, Nokia is coming after Indian manufacturers
Together with the publication of their Q4 and full year 2017 financial report, Nokia also made a conference call with investors and analysts. Nokia’s CEO Rajeev Suri and CFO Kristian Pullola summarized...
View ArticleHMD submitted design patents for 2 new Nokia devices
HMD Global submitted five new design patents to European Union Intellectual Property Office. The patents are for two different devices, the first under the number(s) 004692184-0001/0002/0003/0004, and...
View ArticleHMD Global patents some elements of the camera UI (EUIPO)
Over at the European Union Office for Intellectual Property few new patents submitted by HMD Global were fully published. The five patents come under the design number...
View ArticleHMD’s “Face Unlock” trademark rejected
The European Union Office for Intellectual Property or shorter EUIPO, has rejected HMD’s “Face Unlock” trademark that the company filed on 16th April this year. We don’t know the exact reason why it...
View ArticleNokia and Samsung extend their patent license agreement
With the earnings release for Q3 2018, Nokia also published a press release informing the public that the company extended their license agreement with Samsung, which was due to expire by the end of...
View ArticleNokia and BlackBerry agree to settle their differences outside court
In February 2017, BlackBerry sued Nokia claiming Nokia’s networking gear infringes 11 of their standard-essential patents tied to the 3GPP standard. As we all know, after selling its mobile phone...
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