{"id":14281,"date":"2012-06-01T14:01:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T12:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=14281"},"modified":"2012-06-01T14:03:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T12:03:20","slug":"nokia-hits-back-at-google-patent-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/14281\/nokia-hits-back-at-google-patent-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Nokia hits back at Google patent comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nokia<\/a> struck back at Google<\/a> on Friday over its accusation that the cellphone maker was colluding with Microsoft<\/a> to make money out of their patents.<\/p>\n

“Though we have not yet seen the complaint, Google’s suggestion that Nokia and Microsoft are colluding on intellectual property rights is wrong,” Nokia spokesman Mark Durrant said on Friday.<\/p>\n

“Both companies have their own intellectual property rights portfolios and strategies and operate independently.”<\/p>\n

He also said that some Android<\/a> devices had “significant (intellectual property) infringement issues” relating to Nokia’s patents.<\/p>\n

Google, in a formal complaint to the European Commission, said Microsoft and Nokia had transferred 1,200 patents to MOSAID, a so-called “patent troll” which makes money by taking legal action over patent infringements.<\/p>\n

Nokia and Microsoft cooperate on smartphones that compete with Google’s Android devices. The Finnish phone maker shifted from its own Symbian software in favor of Microsoft Windows<\/a> in February 2011.<\/p>\n

Google’s accusations highlight current cut-throat competition in the mobile phone business where companies, including Nokia, are fighting to assert intellectual property rights over wireless technologies.<\/p>\n

Nokia’s patents have become valuable and stable assets for the company, particularly at a time when falling handset sales and a loss of market share threaten its future.<\/p>\n

Nokia has already sued Android device makers HTC<\/a> and ViewSonic<\/a> for infringing its patents and is expected to go after others.<\/p>\n

Nokia already earns 500 million euros ($618.22 million) a year from its patent royalties in key areas of mobile telephony and some analysts have said a more determined application of its patent rights could boost its income by hundreds more millions of euros a year.<\/p>\n

Microsoft said earlier that Google’s complaint about antitrust in the smartphone industry was a “desperate tactic” from a company that controls more than 95 percent of mobile search and advertising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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