Qualcomm Licked In Legal Battle

Lionel Laurent writing for Forbes today, March 3, 2008, stated:

Qualcomm's epic legal assault on handset-maker Nokia racked up yet another defeat on Monday, after the British High Court ruled that two of the American telecommunications firm's patent infringement claims were invalid.

It is the second time in one week that Qualcomm (nasdaq: QCOM) has failed in its quest to reassert its ownership of various mobile technology patents. On Wednesday, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) upheld a judge's previous ruling that Nokia's (nyse: NOK) handsets did not infringe on three of Qualcomm's patents.

Qualcomm has filed 11 patent infringement charges in six different countries against Nokia since 2005, but has yet to win a single case. Nokia has countersued Qualcomm on a number of occasions, and accuses the American firm of breaching the principles of fairness, reason and non-discrimination where its industry-standard patents are concerned.

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