Nokia sues Apple in Europe and US for iPhone patent infringement

The Finnish network company and former phone maker Nokia has sued Apple, because the American hardware maker would infringe 32 patents with its iPhone. In recent years, both companies have been discussing a license, but the talks have come to nothing.

According to Nokia, the patents cover things such as screen, interface, software, antennas, chipsets and video encoding. The latter probably refers to a VP8 patent that Nokia has owned since 2004 and for which the Finnish company previously sued Google and HTC, among others.

Nokia has filed suit in Germany and the United States, in courts known for often ruling in favor of patent holders. Nokia owns many patents because it had an R&D department for the development of new technologies for telephones for a long time, and also acquired Alcatel-Lucent, which also owned many patents in the field of networks.

Apple has not yet responded to the charges. Many patent lawsuits eventually end in a settlement, although a few times it comes to a final decision. Apple has often been embroiled in patent lawsuits in recent years. The most famous of these was a patent battle with Samsung, which has now almost ended.