.: Nokia Adds iPad to Patent Suit Against Apple:.

[Cosmin M.]

Nokia Adds iPad to Patent Suit Against Apple

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The Finnish cellphone maker Nokia Corporation said on Friday that it had extended its patent-infringement claims against Apple to include the new iPad.

The latest complaint, filed in United States District Court in Madison, Wis., follows other lawsuits by Nokia claiming that a broad swath of Apple products violate Nokia patents. Nokia says the disputed technologies help reduce the size and cost of electronic gadgets. Apple has already responded with its own infringement claims against Nokia.

Apple has also sued the HTC Corporation of Taiwan, one of the leading producers of cellphones that run on Google’s Android software, a potential challenger to Apple’s popular iPhone. Apple says HTC’s Android phones violate iPhone patents.

Nokia’s latest lawsuit is aimed at the iPhone and the iPad 3G, the version of the device that can connect to the Web using cellphone networks. Nokia said the gadgets infringe five patents related to technology that makes voice and data communications more efficient, allowing the devices to be more compact.

An Apple spokesman, Steve Dowling, declined to comment on the new case but said the company had already filed a countersuit in December to earlier claims by Nokia. Apple claims Nokia is infringing on 13 of its patents, saying the company chose to “copy the iPhone” to recapture its share of the high-end phone market.

I think all these phone companies are eating at each other trying to make them go out of business. Its all a big mafia.

[phkrause]

Good point Cosmin, its amazing the greed that goes on. Suing this company and that company, just to get a piece of there action because there making more money than you are. Other companies have been after a piece of apple since the 80s. The pc world has been wishing that apple would go away, but they continue to show how good they are. The pc figured that since they are half the price of a apple, that apple could never last. But its still here and the pc is even now trying to make there product to match the mac. I know that in the printing world the mac rules, it can do so much more and also much more user friendly.

pk