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Qualcomm raises Vitelcom saga vs NokiaThe ongoing legal struggles between chipmaker, Qualcomm, and the world's biggest handset vendor, Nokia, will pass a new threshold today [ April 9th – Easter Monday]. That's the date by which Nokia should have reached some kind of commercial and legal agreement with Qualcomm. Principally because it is the day the last agreement concluded in 2001 actively expires. Mobile Insight had previously highlighted the inconsistencies between Qualcomm's courtroom arguments with Broadcom and the approach it is currently taking towards Nokia. Now Qualcomm has responded by pointing out similar inconsistencies in Nokia's stance against Qualcomm in Europe and how it waged a legal battle against handset minnow, Vitelcom, in a Spanish court. All parties seem to agree that if total IPR payments exceed five per cent – typically of the wholesale asking price per unit – then it becomes commercially unviable to build handsets. The sticking point between Qualcomm and Nokia is over whose patents are really and truly 'essential' to produce a handset and what share of the 5 per cent cake individual patent holders should get. The basic difference in approach between the two combatants are that Nokia's patents are essentially defensive. European companies in general take out patents and say – copy our ideas too closely and we'll sue you. By contrast, IPR orientated vendors like Qualcomm are saying – licence this software code/component and you can build a handset very easily, simply and cheaply.The full Inquirer story ... Qualcomm vs Nokia saga twists and turns |
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