BlackBerry Files Patent-Infringement Suit Against Nokia

BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY) filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Nokia Oyj, demanding royalties on the Finnish company’s mobile network products that use an industrywide technology standard. Nokia’s products including its Flexi Multiradio base stations, radio network controllers and Liquid Radio software are using technology covered by as many as 11 patents, BlackBerry said in a complaint filed Tuesday in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware.
As quoted in the press release:

The mobile network products and services are provided to companies including T-Mobile US Inc. and AT&T Inc. for their LTE networks, BlackBerry said in the complaint. “Nokia has persisted in encouraging the use” of the standard- compliant products without a license from BlackBerry, it said.
“BlackBerry seeks to obtain recompense for Nokia’s unauthorized use of BlackBerry’s patented technology,” the Waterloo, Canada-based company said in the complaint. BlackBerry didn’t specify how much it’s seeking.

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