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    Home»World»BlackBerry files patent suit against Nokia

    BlackBerry files patent suit against Nokia

    World By Agency Staff15 February 2017
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    BlackBerry has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Nokia, demanding royalties on the Finnish company’s mobile network products that use an industry-wide technology standard.

    Nokia’s products including its Flexi Multiradio base stations, radio network controllers and Liquid Radio software are using technology covered by as many as 11 patents, BlackBerry said in a complaint filed on Tuesday in a US federal court.

    The mobile network products and services are provided to companies including T-Mobile US and AT&T for their LTE networks, BlackBerry said in the complaint. “Nokia has persisted in encouraging the use” of the standard- compliant products without a licence from BlackBerry, it said.

    “BlackBerry seeks to obtain recompense for Nokia’s unauthorised use of BlackBerry’s patented technology,” the Canadian company said in the complaint. BlackBerry didn’t specify how much it’s seeking.

    CEO John Chen is working to find new ways to pull revenue out of BlackBerry’s technology as smartphone sales head to zero. He’s used acquisitions to add a suite of software products and negotiated licensing agreements to take advantage of the company’s thick book of wireless technology patents.

    Nokia is aware of the inventions because the company has cited some of the patents in some of its own patent applications, BlackBerry said.

    Some of the patents in the case were previously owned by former telecommunications giant Nortel Networks, and Nokia had at one point tried to buy them as part of a failed bid for Nortel’s business in 2009, according to BlackBerry.

    BlackBerry was part of a group called Rockstar Consortium that bought Nortel’s patents out of bankruptcy for US$4,5bn in 2011. The patents were split up between the members of the group, which included Apple and Microsoft.

    Since BlackBerry contends that patents cover essential elements of a mobile telecoms standard known as 3GPP, it has pledged to license them on fair and reasonable terms. It doesn’t seek any court order that would block use of the inventions.  — (c) 2017 Bloomberg LP

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