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Nokia files complaints against Vitelcom
on patent infringements
Nokia Corporation has just announced that it has filed patent infringement
complaints against Vitelcom. These are European complaints involving Nokia
patents covering GSM and GPRS technologies. Nokia seeks injunctions against
the continued sale and marketing of Vitelcom's mobile phone products covered
by the patents in suit and/or monetary damages.
"Nokia has invested considerable time, energy and resources in its
own R&D, which has yielded many significant inventions and allowed
Nokia to build one of the industry's largest portfolios of technology
patents," said Ilkka Rahnasto, Vice President, IPR, Nokia. "Vitelcom
should play by the rules and licence needed intellectual property. In
this situation, it has become necessary to take the dispute to the courts.
We believe Vitelcom is using Nokia patented technologies without authority
from or compensation to Nokia."
Nokia is the leading patent owner for GSM and GPRS technologies. Nokia
has a particularly strong patent portfolio for improved voice quality,
mobile data and usability of mobile phones. Nokia has a licensing program
to allow new manufacturers to make GSM and GPRS phones at fair and reasonable
licensing terms
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