{"id":10529,"date":"2012-04-20T16:16:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T14:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=10529"},"modified":"2012-04-23T10:35:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T08:35:57","slug":"nokia-loses-patent-court-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/10529\/nokia-loses-patent-court-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Nokia loses patent court case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Nokia\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1650-Nokia-Corporation\">Nokia<\/a> lost a court case on Friday after a regional court in Mannheim, Germany, found the Finnish mobile phone company had violated patents belonging to German patent firm IPCom.<\/p>\n<p>Nokia spokesman <a title=\"Mark Durrant\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2228-Mark-Durrant\">Mark Durrant<\/a> said the ruling affected phones that were no longer being sold.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We respectfully disagree with this decision, but almost all of these phones predated the grant of the patent in February 2011 and our products today use different methods.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The judgment does not rule whether Nokia&#8217;s current mobile devices infringe the patent,&#8221; he said, adding the company would ask a higher regional court to clarify the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Shares in Nokia, which has been struggling to compete with both high-end smartphone rivals and cheaper competitors, were down 4.8 percent to 2.778 euros ($3.66) at 1128 GMT.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling came the day after Nokia announced a bigger-than-expected loss, dropped its sales chief, and said it would cut more costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nokia lost a court case on Friday after a regional court in Mannheim, Germany, found the Finnish mobile phone company had violated patents belonging to German patent firm IPCom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,2481,187,365],"class_list":["post-10529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-ipcom","tag-nokia","tag-patents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10532,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10529\/revisions\/10532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}