Nokia has sued Apple for infringement rights on certain Nokia patents for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN standards. The complaint was officially filed at Federal District Court in Delaware where Nokia claims that their patents were infringed by all Apple iPhone models since 2007. Nokia has been a known leader in GSM development and has actually invested over 40 billion EUROS on research and development. Other than GSM, Nokia has also authored the evolution of UMTS / 3G WCDMA as well as wireless LAN which is without question present in most Apple iPhone devices.

(Source) Press

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Call it a cast of being fickle-minded but that seems to be the best term to define this issue surrounding Cartier and Apple. Apparently, the luxury watchmaker had planned to sue Apple for infringement after apps made by the Digitopolis Game Studio appeared on the Apple App Store.

Filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the lawsuit claimed the applications give people the ability to tell time on the iPhone and iPod Touch with a display that simulates famous wristwatches.

And the reason for the lawsuit withdrawal? Simple. Apple took out the app and that was that. Now that wasn’t so hard was it? Alls well that ends well!

(Source) CNET

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I bet you were not expecting this to happen but it looks like Google and lots of other Android friends are in trouble with the law. Why is that? Well a certain Erich Specht who owns the trademark for Android Data Corporation since way back in October 2002, has sued Google and pretty much everyone else using the “Android” term for trademark infringement.

You would expect Google to be smarter than this and to actually apply themselves for the trademark for “Android” right? Well they did and the trademark application was denied to avoid confusion with Mr. Specht. I guess that Google and everyone else is going to pay a lot of money to keep the Android name in business. That’s right, Mr. Specht wants money and a name-change for Google’s OS. But what’s in a name anyway?

via tgdaily

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