Updated Litigated Patent Listing in QUALCOMM v. Nokia Negotiation by Litigation ...
Recap
· On November 24, 2005, QUALCOMM filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nokia in the U.S. Southern District of California (San Diego) asserting 11 Qualcomm patents and one Snaptrack patent supposedly bearing on ETI/3GPP GERAN technology.
· On May 24, 2006, Qualcomm filed a similar lawsuit against Nokia in the United Kingdom, as a geographic extension of the November 2005 lawsuit, filed in San Diego. Subsequently QUALCOMM filed similar actions in Germany, France, and Italy.
· On June 12, 2006, QUALCOMM filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) against Nokia, alleging the infringement by Nokia on six of Qualcomm’s patents.
The following is not necessarily complete but summarized as follows with the ETSI Declaration Date & the ETSI/3GPP Project it was declared essential to added after locating (or not locating) the declared essential patents ...
Patents in Qualcomm vs. Nokia Negotiation by Litigation
Patent Patent
Number Date Title [ETSI Declared Date & ETSI/3GPP Project]
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01) 5257283 10/26/93 Spread Spectrum Transmitter Power Control Method
and System [2001-10-19 UMTS] [2005-10-14 GERAN]
02) 5568483 10/22/96 Method and Apparatus for the Formatting of Data
for Transmission
[2001-10-19 UMTS] [2005-10-14 AMR]
03)² 5590408 12/31/96 Reverse Link, Transmit Power Correction and Limit-
ation in a Radiotelephone System
[2001-10-19 UMTS] [2005-10-14 GERAN]
03)² 0695482 9/19/95 Same as above but European Patent Office filing.
[2005-10-14 GERAN]
04) 5638412 6/10/97 Method for Providing Service and Rate Negotiation
in a Mobile Communication System
[2001-10-19 UMTS] [2005-10-14 GPRS]
05) 5655220 8/5/97 Reverse Link, Transmit Power Correction and Limit-
ation in a Radiotelephone System
[2001-10-19 UMTS] [2005-10-14 GERAN]
06] 5742734 4/21/98 Encoding Rate Selection in a Variable Rate Vocoder
[2004-04-08 3GPP/AMR-WB] [2005-10-14 AMR]
07) 5778338 7/07/98 Variable Rate Vocoder
[2004-04-08 3GPP/AMR-WB] [2005-10-14 AMR]
08)² 6453182 9/17/02 Wireless Telephone Airplane and Alarm Clock Modes
[Not Found]
09) 6496543 12/17/02 Method And Apparatus for Providing High Speed Data
Communications in a Cellular Environment
[2005-10-14 GERAN]
10) 6574211 6/03/03 Method And Apparatus For High Rate Packet Data
Transmission [2005-10-14 GERAN]
11) 6677894 1/13/04 Method And Apparatus For Providing Location-Based
Information Via A Computer Network
[2004-06-04 3GPP, GPRS, GSM] [Snaptrak Patent]
12) 6868267 3/15/05 Apparatus, Method, and Article of Manufacture Used
to Invoice for Services Consumed in a
Communications Network [Not Found]
13)¹ 5452104 9/19/95 Adaptive Block Size Image Compression Method
and System [2006-04-25 3GPP]
14)¹ 5452473 9/19/95 Reverse Link, Transmit Power Correction and Limit-
ation in a Radiotelephone System [2001-10-19 UMTS]
14)² 0695482 9/19/95 Same as above but European Patent Office filing.
[2005-10-14 GERAN]
15)¹ 5576767 11/19/96 Interframe Video Encoding and Decoding System
[2006-04-25 3GPP]
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¹ Filed with ITC, but not U.S. District Court
² One of 6 Filed with ITC
² Filed in UK suit
Source for Listing Above: UBS Investment Research (July 17 2006) on QUALCOMM, page 29 ...
wirelessledger.com
... and a preliminary search of the ETSI IPR Database:
webapp.etsi.org
Last July Maynard J. Um of UBS commented ...
We believe these suits (QCOM litigation and NOK EU complaint) are part of the on-going negotiation process to seek leverage in ultimately reaching an agreement. These lawsuits are reminiscent of Qualcomm lawsuits in the late 1990s against Ericsson and Motorola (separately), which was ultimately settled and all claims/counterclaims dismissed. Note that Qualcomm’s current licensing agreement with Nokia expires on April 9, 2007.
See prior post for the latest Nokia update of the ITC action which. like the others, is still in progress as the Nokia and QUALCOMM's IPR licenses to each other head for expiration in early April ...
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