A patent holder is suing Nokia for $17.7 billion in Germany, Noki...
A patent holder is suing Nokia for $17.7 billion in Germany, Nokia confirmed last week. IP-Com sued Nokia Dec. 13 in the Mannheim, Germany, district court after Nokia refused to pay that price for a license. “We demand at…
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least 12 billion euros in license fees for the patents which we own and which Nokia uses in its products,” Christoph Schoeller, managing director of IP-Com, told Reuters last week. That claim is “completely unrealistic” and Nokia “will of course defend itself,” a Nokia spokeswoman said. The patents in the suit originally belonged to Bosch, she said. Bosch “refused to honor its commitments to standardization organizations and Nokia,” instead selling the patents to IP-Com, a company owned by Bosch outside counsel, she said. Nokia believes the patents are “invalid and not infringed,” and has claims pending against Bosch, she said.