Nokia Sues Apple For Stealing iPhone

iPhone in iTrouble Nokia (photo credit: Unwired website) Just two days ago, on October 20, 2009, in the Apple Trounces Sony article, the Judiciary Report chided Sony for not being able to pull off its usual, criminal security breach, in hacking and stealing unreleased copyrights and patents, from competitor Apple, the maker of the iPhone. iPhone Two days later, today, it was announced Nokia is suing Apple for stealing the iPhone from them, based on preexisting patents they hold. Nokia: Apple iPhone Violates Our Patents October 22, 2009, 2:00PM EST - In a U.S. District Court lawsuit, the Finnish mobile-phone giant accuses Apple of patent infringement on Nokia-developed 3G and wireless LAN technology Apple's iPhone has been giving Nokia smartphones a hard time in the marketplace. Now Nokia is giving Apple a hard time in the courtroom. The Finnish handset giant said Oct. 22 it has filed suit against Apple (AAPL) in U.S. District Court in Delaware, accusing its California-based rival of infringing patents for core technology that allows the iPhone to make calls and connect to the mobile Internet. Although Nokia (NOK) has sued rivals such as Qualcomm (QCOM) over patents in the past, the latest lawsuit came as a surprise—and represents an escalation of increasingly contentious competition with Apple. In a statement, Nokia said Apple has refused to pay for use of intellectual property developed by Nokia that lets handsets connect to third-generation, or 3G, wireless networks, as well as to wireless local area networks. "Apple is attempting to get a free ride on the back of Nokia's innovation," Ilkka Rahnasto, Nokia vice-president for legal and intellectual property, said in the statement. Neither Nokia nor Apple responded immediately to requests for further comment... http://www.businessweek.com Nokia Files Patent Lawsuit Against Apple October 22, 2009 11:54 AM PDT - Nokia filed a lawsuit against Apple today alleging that the iPhone violates 10 different patents owned by Nokia. Nokia claims that the technologies, ranging from speech coding to security to wireless data transmission, have been used in every iPhone since the iPhone has existed, so what is the motive behind suing now? The Finland-based mobile phone giant--with a comfortably dominant 45 percent share of the smart phone market--claims that these same patented technologies are licensed and paid for by 40 other tech companies and it feels that Apple is infringing on its patent rights by not doing so as well. I understand that individuals and organizations should be able to protect their intellectual property and investment in developing innovative solutions. Nokia claims to have invested nearly $90 billion over the past 20 years on research and development for these and other patented technologies... http://www.pcworld.com

Apple Trounces Sony

Apple, the maker of products such as the iPhone, saw a 47% surge in profits, catapulting their sales to $1.67 billion dollars in the last quarter. While uncreative competitor, Sony Ericsson, lost over $245,000,000 dollars in the last quarter on its substandard phones.

Sony C.E.O. Howard Stringer, who currently has the Sony legal department trying to battle over 100 lawsuits in America, for the willful theft of copyrights and patents, due to their nasty habit of stealing from everyone, must be kicking himself.

Had he successfully done his usual, in ordering one of the guys from their tech department, responsible for the DRM scandal and other computer intrusion incidents, to break into Apple's security and steal the plans for the iPhone, releasing it as their own before Apple launched it, they could have criminally taken credit and payment for it.

Apple's profit climbs 47% in its 'most profitable quarter ever'

Its earnings of $1.67 billion far exceed analysts' expectations. The increase is fueled by brisk back-to-school sales of the company's MacBook computers and the continued popularity of its iPhone.
Apple, Steve Jobs...

http://www.latimes.com

Sony Ericsson Posts Fifth Consecutive Loss as Demand Falls

Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Ltd., the mobile-phone venture of Sony Corp. and Ericsson AB, reported a fifth straight quarterly loss on lower demand for its handsets and announced new financing.

The third-quarter net loss was 164 million euros ($245 million), less than analysts anticipated, compared with a loss of 25 million euros a year earlier, the company said in a statement today. The company arranged external credit totaling 455 million euros, partly guaranteed by its parent companies...

http://www.bloomberg.com

Obama Encouraged By Jobs Report

No, Not Steve Jobs...The National Jobs Report

Today, U.S. President Barack Obama, holding a press conference at the White House, in Washington, D.C., expressed that he is heartened by the national jobs report, which reflected a decline in layoffs, for the month of July 2009, during the current economic crisis.

While the President did emphasize America is not out of the woods yet, he was nonetheless happy with the latest report.