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Apple Sues Nokia, alleges infringement

Apple Inc., maker of the iPhone, Apple devices and iTunes music software, said it filed a countersuit claiming that Nokia Oyj is infringing its technology. In the suit filed today in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, Apple claimed Nokia is wrongfully using 13 of its patents.

“Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies,” Bruce Sewell, Cupertino, California-based Apple’s general counsel, said in a statement.

Apple, which makes the iPhone and iPod, was responding to a suit that accused Apple of infringing 10 Nokia patents for technologies such as wireless data, speech coding and security, that Nokia filed in October. Apple however denied so and added that Nokia’s patents are invalid and shouldn’t be enforced.

Nokia spokesman Mark Durrant said the counterclaim doesn’t change the ground rules of the original patent infringement suit. “We will need time to study it before we make any direct comment,” Durrant said.

Apple, which entered the industry in mid-2007, overtook Nokia last quarter as the cellphone maker generating the highest total operating profit.

“Apple has dazed Nokia and Sony by redefining mobile and making it stylish. A combination that is hard to beat,” Steven Nathasingh, chief executive of researcher Vaxa Inc. said.

Nokia said it spent about €40 billion ($60.1 billion) during the past two decades in research and development.

Apple fell $1.76 to $194.67 today in Nasdaq Stock Market trading.

[Thanks: http://topnews.co.uk]

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