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After suffering litigation from Qualcomm over alleged patent infringements Nokia has hit back claiming that Qualcomm's MediaFLO mobile TV broadcast technology and its BREW mobile application platform both infringe on "many patented Nokia inventions."
Nokia has filed patent assertions against Qualcomm in the Eastern District of Texas Court relating to Qualcomm's alleged unauthorised use of six Nokia implementation patents by Qualcomm in its MediaFLO and BREW businesses. Nokia is seeking both damages and injunctive relief.
According to Nokia's CTO, Tero Ojanperä, "This is another example where Qualcomm has effectively copied Nokia's innovations. We believe that, for MediaFLO to evolve and for BREW to remain viable, Qualcomm needs access to these and many other patented Nokia inventions."
Nokia alleges that its patents are at the core of MediaFLO and BREW technologies, among other things, to ensure the broadcast quality of MediaFLO services and to enable the download of applications with BREW. Nokia says it has also recently declared another set of patents to the Telecommunication Industry Association (TIA) as essential for the FLO air interface used in MediaFLO.
Nokia's patent counter assertions are part of its response to the Qualcomm lawsuit filed against Nokia in the Eastern District of Texas, on 2 April, 2007. Nokia says it is confident that the Qualcomm patents are invalid. It claims that the alleged inventions having been patented or published by other companies, including Nokia, before Qualcomm. Nokia also claims that its products do not infringe any of the patents.
Qualcomm's FLO/MediaFlo system is one of a number of technologies vying for dominance of what is expected to be a major market for technology that enables cellphones to receive broadcast TV (as opposed to TV transmission over cellular networks which requires dedicated capacity for each user even if they are receiving the same transmission).
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