Nokia today announced that it had filed yet another lawsuit against the Cupertino-based company, Apple, alleging that two of Apple’s products, the iPhone and iPad 3G, infringe on five patents owned by Nokia.
According to the Finland-based company, the suit has been filed in the Federal District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin, and the patents involved in the suit, are related to enhanced speech and data transmission.
"Nokia has been the leading developer of many key technologies in mobile devices. We have taken this step to protect the results of our pioneering development and to put an end to continued unlawful use of Nokia's innovation," said Paul Melin, General Manager, Patent Licensing at Nokia.
Nokia added that it has invested about 40 billion euros in research and development to develop these technologies and the Finnish company has one of the industry's "strongest and broadest" patent portfolios.
