A Netherlands court dismissed a Nokia complaint seeking to bar Qu...
A Netherlands court dismissed a Nokia complaint seeking to bar Qualcomm from enforcing European Union patents. In March, Nokia filed in courts in The Hague, Netherlands, and Mannheim, Germany, claiming Qualcomm’s intellectual property claims were “exhausted” because its patents…
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were licensed to Texas Instruments. Dismissing its case Oct. 23, the Mannheim court cited Nokia’s lack of “legal interest” to pursue claims. This week, The Hague followed suit, ruling that the complaint failed to specify instances of exhaustion. The rulings prove “one should view Nokia’s fundamental theory of exhaustion with a significant degree of skepticism,” Qualcomm General Counsel Dan Rosenberg said. Nokia has until month’s end to appeal in Mannheim and three months to appeal in The Hague. The Hague ruling “was based on the scope of the relief Nokia requested, rather than the principle of patent exhaustion,” and Nokia remains “confident that our substantive claim is well founded,” said a Nokia spokeswoman. Nokia is “considering if we will appeal” the decisions, she added.