Nokia signs patent licensing deal with China’s OPPO
After signing deals with Huawei and Xiaomi, Nokia continues its tour of licensing patents to Chinese smartphone makers with OPPO – a member of the BBK Electronics group that is combined the world’s 2nd...
View ArticleDaimler complains to EU about Nokia’s patents
German automotive corporation Daimler, best known for Mercedes brand of cars, sent an official complaint to EU anti-trust regulators about Nokia patents needed for car communication. Our cars are...
View ArticleContinental and others join Daimler in EU antitrust case against Nokia
More Companies have joined German car maker Daimler in seeking for an antitrust case to be opened against Nokia in the European Union. Daimler alleges that Nokia isn’t offering the licenses to standard...
View ArticleNokia Q1 2019: Added new licensing partners like TCL, Audi, Porsche;...
Nokia released their Q1 2019 financial report today that surprised analysts that expected better performance. The Company announced an operating loss of €59 million, while the analyst’s expectation in...
View ArticleNokia sues Lenovo for infringing video codec patents
As BloomberLaw reports, Nokia filed a complaint against Lenovo alleging that the Chinese company is using over 20 of Nokia’s video coding patents related to “International Telecommunications Union’s...
View ArticleNokia and other Avanci members continue filing patent infringement cases...
For quite some time, Nokia has been mentioning the automotive industry as a space where they can expand their patent licensing business, because our cars are getting more and more connected and Nokia...
View ArticleNokia holds over 2000 patents essential for the 5G network
Nokia started developing 5G technology early in the process of creation of new networking standard. That effort resulted in more than 2000 patents applied at the European Telecommunications Standards...
View ArticleNokia working to end the patent dispute with Daimler
In 2019, Nokia intensified it’s pursuit in licensing the Finnish networks giants intellectual property in the automotive industry. The first car maker with which Nokia didn’t find a common language was...
View ArticleNokia halts legal action against Daimler
In 2019, Nokia and Daimler escalated their dispute about network patents in the auto industry which lead Nokia to bring up a dozen of lawsuits against Daimler and their tier 1 suppliers, on which...
View ArticleIEEE Spectrum: Nokia has more valuable 5G patents than Huawei and Ericsson
The 5G race continues. While most of it is all about getting commercial 5G contracts from telecommunications companies, the patented technology of every network infrastructure providers also plays a...
View ArticleNokia filed 579 international patents in 2019 with WIPO
Nowadays, continuous innovation is necessary so that technology can penetrate the markets faster and offer a better connection. Though patenting those innovations may not prove that much sustainable in...
View ArticleIn 2019, Nokia had the 2nd highest number of granted 5G patent families
An interesting study was published (PDF) about the number of patens companies competing in the 5G space have been granted till the 1st of January of 2020. The situation might be different now,...
View ArticleNokia asks ITC to block Lenovo PC imports to US due to patent infringement
As BloomberLaw reports, Nokia asked the United States International Trade Commission (US ITC) to block imports of popular Lenovo PCs due to a patent dispute between the companies. In autumn of 2019,...
View ArticleNokia wins patent fight against Lenovo in Germany and can ask for ban of...
Specialised site covering legal battles in the tech sector FossPatents reports that Nokia won an injunction against Lenovo in Germany that can be enforced against a collateral of 3.25 million euro,...
View ArticleNokia blocks sales of Lenovo PCs in Germany because of patent infringement
Earlier this month the German court decided to allow Nokia an injunction against Lenovo products in Germany against a collateral of 3.25 million euro. Nokia decided to enforce that injunction, meaning...
View ArticleReuters: EU Commission plans to set rules for patent licensing in automotive...
The Finnish networks giant Nokia and German car maker Daimler have been going at each other in courts and via antitrust complaints for almost two years now. Nokia alleges that Daimler is using Nokia’s...
View ArticleNokia signs new licensing agreement with Samsung
Nokia just signed a new licensing agreement with Samsung covering the use of Nokia’s innovations related to video standards. As part of our ongoing investment to R&D and contribution to multimedia...
View ArticleNokia received ISO 9001 certificate for managing patents
Nokia announced today that their patent management process received the ISO 9001 certificate, symbolizing the high quality of the process spanning the entire lifetime of a patent. Nokia’s official...
View ArticleNokia now holds 4000 5G essential patent families
Nokia announced today that the company reached the number of 4,000 patent families that are declared as essential to 5G. In the statement, Nokia also mentioned that its 5G R&D efforts are not...
View ArticleNokia phones to be sold again in EU markets soon
Patents are created to protect intellectual property from being overused without a proper reward to the original patent holder. However, some patents can be misused by companies that seek and sue phone...
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