The Apple and Nokia saga is clearly set to rumble to new heights as it emerged that the fruity firm has countersued the Finns.
If you can cast your mind back through the mists of time to October of this year, you'll dimly recall Nokia suing Apple for having the audacity to have a wireless connection on board (this is something everyone should pay Nokia royalties for developing, according to the Finns).
However, now Apple is claiming on its site that Nokia has stolen its ideas from the iPhone, 13 of them in fact.
Don't just steal our ideas
The details of what Nokia is alleged to have nabbed haven't been published yet, but according to Electronista, Apple's General Counsel Bruce Sewell has said that Nokia is trying to keep its market share by stealing Apple's ideas.
"Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours," he stated.
Whether Apple has as firm a case as Nokia, or whether this is a ploy to force the Finnish company to settle, we don't know. But this looks like one that's definitely going to rumble on and on.
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stu531
December 13th 2009
4. I'm an iPhone fan BUT we know how protective/ridiculous Apple can be when it comes to licensing.
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tech89
December 13th 2009
3. I'm supporting the finns.
I don't trust what apple says and they are deliberately trying to drag the matter out (when they're probably in the wrong - them not publishing the documents quickly doesn't make them seem believable).
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budo
December 12th 2009
2. I'm sick of all this back stabbing from Apple, Microsoft, the lot of them!
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anteaus
December 11th 2009
1. Don't see how this is good news, it means that every phone manufacturer will be reluctant to add new features in case of an expensive patent battle. It's bad news for everyone except the patent lawyers, who are gonna 'milk' us, the consumers.
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