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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Apple has been sued by Taiwan based manufacturer Elan Microelectronics Corp. for reportedly infringing two of its patents for touchscreen technology. The lawsuit, filed in a US District Court here on Tuesday, accuses Apple of infringing on Elan patents in its iBook, PowerBook and MacBook portable computers, the iPhone smartphone and the iPod Touch digital music player.

“Each of these devices includes a touch-sensitive input device capable of detecting the simultaneous presence of two or more fingers or other capacitive objects using the structure and methods claimed in (Elan’s) 352 patent,” the complaint said.

Elan alleged that the iPhone and iPod Touch infringe on another patent held by the Taiwan company. The complaint claims the patent infringement is causing Elan “irreparable harm,” asks the court to put an end to it and demands unspecified damages from the Cupertino, California-based Apple.

According to The New York Times, Elan filed suit in 2006 against another US company, Synaptics, over one of the patents mentioned in the Apple lawsuit. It said Synaptics countersued and both actions were dismissed last year after the companies reached a cross-licensing agreement.

(Source) AFP

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While we’re anxiously waiting for Apple to unveil their new generation of laptops and iPods later in September, Apple has launched some of those patents for new products. And there are six Apple patents revealed today. They show an iPod/iPhone stand, an amplification system, a form of speech synthesis and a computing device which I’ll refer to as a MacBook tablet for now.

Besides that there’s a new earbud/lanyard design and a new backlighting scheme mentioned. Some of those patents apply to already existing products while others offer a preview to what’s coming.

Personally I am interested in the computing device for now, as it might just be the hottest thing the year brings.

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