Qualcomm Lawyers Lob Another Over The Trench

Written by Adam Gosling

Thursday, 05 April 2007

Wireless technology company Qualcomm has lobbed another grenade over the trenches with the Nokia legal team now facing additional fights in Texas and Wisconsin. The company filed suit against Nokia alleging the phone company of infringing three of its patents in its GSM/GPRS/EDGE cellular phones. One lot of patents generally relate to the downloading of applications and other digital content over a GPRS/EDGE wireless data network while another handful deal with speech encoders used in certain models of GSM handsets. The two companies have been at each other for years now fighting over Nokia's use of various Qualcomm patents in various principalities. There are two other patent infringement lawsuits against Nokia's GSM/GPRS/EDGE cellular phones in the United States and similar cases pending in the U.K., France, Germany, Italy and China. Qualcomm claims its extensive licensing program already has more than 140 royalty agreements in place and is prepared to offer licenses under its essential GSM/GPRS/EDGE patents on fair and reasonable terms free from unfair discrimination to any company that requests one. www.qualcomm.com Related news items Broadcom Enthusisam for 802.11n Wavers -06/09/2007 Sydney Airport Network Improved For APEC -03/09/2007 Mobile Apps Worth Billions To Operators -01/08/2007 D-Link Boosts Draft N Range -30/07/2007 New BlackBerry Has Wi-Fi -18/07/2007 Newer news items Voda NZ In Trouble Over Number Portability -16/04/2007 Qualcomm Scoffs At Nokia's Millions -13/04/2007 Nokia Payment An Admission: Qualcomm -09/04/2007 Tasteless Posters Warned On Rape Video -05/04/2007 Nokia Pays Up As Deadline Nears -05/04/2007 Older news items Consumers Still Struggling With Mobile Contracts -02/04/2007 Tag This Now: