German court rules Nokia infringed IPCom patents
Nokia has suffered a defeat against IPCom after a German court ruled it had infringed IPCom's patents.
IPCom accused Nokia of infringing patents that cover technology for allowing mobile phones to connect to 3G networks. Nokia had failed to get the patents thrown out and a Mannheim court has ruled Nokia infringed IPCom's patents.
According to comments by Nokia spokesman Mark Durrant, the ruling will have little effect on Nokia as most of the phones implicated are no longer being sold. Durrant said, "We respectfully disagree with this decision, but almost all of these phones pre-dated the grant of the patent in February 2011 and our products today use different methods."