In case you’re into role-playing and like to pretend to be a lawyer in your spare time, the best kind of lawyer too, the kind who sleeps with their secretary that’s half their age and tells the wife that they ended up staying late at work battling a pro bono case defending an inner city kid accused of selling illegal substances, then you’ll want to read this 30 page PDF detailing Nokia’s complaint against Apple for violating 10 patents held by the Finnish handset maker. For the impatient people among us, here is a list of the 10 patents, with links to their corresponding page on the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s website:
- Data transmission in a radio telephone network
- Method and apparatus for speech transmission in a mobile communications system
- Speech synthesizer employing post-processing for enhancing the quality of the synthesized speech
- Data transfer in a mobile telephone network
- Measurement report transmission in a telecommunications system
- Access channel for reduced access delay in a telecommunications system
- Method of ciphering data transmission in a radio system
- Integrity check in a communication system
- Reporting cell measurement results in a cellular communication system
- System for ensuring encrypted communication after handover
If Nokia wins this case, they’re looking at getting between $200 million and $1 billion courtesy of Cupertino according to an estimate by Strategy Analytics analyst Neil Mawston. Knowing how long Nokia fought InterDigital and Qualcomm, it’s safe to say that you’re going to hear about this case with Apple every year of the first half of the upcoming decade. As always, stick to IntoMobile to get the details you crave.
[Via: Mobile-Review]