Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent have launched a major legal attack on Apple, filing lawsuits in Germany and the US that accuse Apple of infringing 32 patents. According to Nokia's statement, the patents cover technologies that include display, user interface, software, antenna, chipsets, and video coding.
The US lawsuit includes 10 patents and was filed in federal court in East Texas, a venue that's long been favored by patent owners. Most of the patents originated at Nokia, but at least one originated at Lucent Technologies. Nokia agreed to buy Alcatel Lucent in 2015 and completed the deal last year.
Read moreNokia paid millions of euros to a blackmailer to protect an encryption key of the Symbian phones in 2008.
The National Bureau of Investigation confirms that the case is still unsolved. The matter is investigated as aggravated extortion, says Detective Superintendent Tero Haapala. Journalists said that the blackmailers had acquired the encryption key for a core part of Nokia's Symbian software and threatened to make it public. Had it done so anyone could then have written additional code for Symbian including possible malware which would have been indistinguishable from the legitimate part of the software, MTV said.
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