Louise Pentland: New Nokia Global General Counsel
Internal promotion to 10 year Nokia veteran who has been acting CLO/GC since last September and prior to that was Vice President, Legal. Enterprise Solutions. Nokia Corporation (USA).
>> Nokia Names Pentland as New In-House Legal Chief
Leigh Jackson
Legal Week
11/07/2008
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Nokia has formally appointed Louise Pentland as its chief legal officer after handing her the role on a temporary basis in September last year.
Pentland took up the post nine months ago while the communications company sought a replacement for former chief legal officer Carl Belding.
Belding died in September last year after falling from a hotel balcony during a business trip to Switzerland. He joined Nokia at the beginning of last year from IBM, where he was general counsel for Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Pentland was the legal head of Nokia’s enterprise business solutions prior to taking her new position and has held a number of senior positions in the company during the last ten years.
She will now permanently lead Nokia’s international legal team which consists of more than 150 lawyers throughout 130 countries. The Scandinavian company does not operate a formal legal panel; instead instructing a large number of firms including Shearman & Sterling and Clyde & Co.
The news comes after Nokia and InterDigital agreed to drop patent cases against each other in the English courts.
The first of the lawsuits, which related to 3G mobile phone technology patents, was filed by Nokia in July 2005, with the cases finally settled earlier this month. However, the companies are still locked in dispute in the US. ###
>> Nokia Hands GC Role to Acting Legal Chief
Ben Moshinsky
TheLawyer
11-Jul-2008
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Nokia has found a new global general counsel after a 10-month search, deciding to promote internally for the role.
Acting chief legal officer Louise Pentland will become Nokia's permanent general counsel. Pentland was vice president of the legal team for North America before her promotion to the top job. She will oversee a team of more than 150 lawyers, operating in around 130 countries.
Pentland has had a distinguished career of more than 10 years in Nokia's legal team, during which time she held the position of chief legal counsel for the company's Enterprise Solutions unit.
She will replace Swedish-born general counsel Carl Belding, who joined Nokia in 2006 from IBM, where he was head of legal for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Belding stepped in for Ursula Ranin, who was general counsel from 1994 to 2005. He died last September after falling from a hotel balcony in Switzerland.
Pentland's appointment comes as Nokia faces a gruelling series of patent disputes in the High Court. To add to the company's IP woes, Bird & Bird hired Nokia's head of European patent litigation in February this year. Ari Laakkonen joined the firm as a senior consultant after spending four years at Nokia managing litigation across European jurisdictions.
Nokia is facing four separate patent licence disputes against Interdigital Technology Corporation, with the hearings due for April, June and October 2009 as well as one in October this year. Bird & Bird is acting for Nokia, facing Wragge & Co on the other side. ###
The final paragraphappears to be be inaccurate (outdated) per the following ...
>> InterDigital and Nokia Agree to End English Court Actions
InterDigital PR
King Of Prussia, Pa
July 2, 2008
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InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ:IDCC) announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary, InterDigital Technology Corporation, and Nokia Corporation have agreed to end two legal actions in the English Courts.
The cases concerned whether certain patents owned by the parties are essential to the UMTS 3G mobile telephony standard.
Nokia Corporation had brought suit against InterDigital Technology Corporation in the English High Court on July 29, 2005 (commonly referred to as UKII) alleging that certain of InterDigital Technology Corporation's UK patents declared to the UMTS 3G standard were not essential to that standard.
InterDigital Technology Corporation had brought suit against Nokia Corporation in the English High Court on December 19, 2006 (commonly referred to as UKIII) alleging that certain of Nokia's UK patents declared to the UMTS 3G standard were not essential to that standard. Nokia Siemens Networks Oy was joined to the action on October 17, 2007, as some of the Nokia patents in suit were transferred to Nokia Siemens Networks Oy.
The details of the agreement are confidential between the parties. Ongoing US litigation between Nokia and InterDigital continues. ###
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