Nokia sues Apple for infringing technology patents
Apple has sued Acacia Research Corp and Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc for colluding with Nokia to extract and extort exorbitant revenues.
Apple sued Acacia Research Corp (ACTG.O) and Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc [GEGGIM.UL] on Tuesday, accusing them of colluding with Nokia to extract and extort exorbitant revenues unfairly and anti-competitively from Apple.
Nokia’s lawsuits, filed in courts in Dusseldorf, Mannheim and Munich, Germany and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, covered patents for displays, user interfaces, software, antennas, chipsets and video coding.
“Since agreeing a license covering some patents from the Nokia Technologies portfolio in 2011, Apple has declined subsequent offers made by Nokia.
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“Apple also declined to license other of its patented inventions which are used by many of Apple’s products’’, Nokia said in a statement.
However Apple and Acacia did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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