Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Week 7 Blog 2 - InterDigital vs. Nokia, Samsung, Huawei, and ZTE

Early in January of this year InterDigital, a wireless telecommunications research and development company,  filed additional ITC complants against Nokia, Samsung, Huawei, and ZTE after extending its wireless patent licesnse agreements with RIM (Blackberry). The agreement was about coverage for 4G products, LTE, and LTE-Advanced products. Therefore, InterDigital is seeking U.S import bans against those four companies' products with 3G and 4G capabilities.
In addition to this, InterDigital had already filed complaints to the ITC in June of 2011 against Nokia, Huawei, and ZTE about seven patents. One of those patents include something about an automatic power control system for a code division multiple access, which is what we know as CDMA.
Because of this, Samsung is being accused of the their devices such as the Galaxy Note, Galaxy Tab II, and 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot.
In particular, Nokia has a long history of battling with InterDigital. Several years ago, they were able to come to an agreement about their 2G patents in Europe. However, they have not reached any conclusions on their 3G patents, which is probably why InterDigital is still after Nokia.
The author of this article mentions how InterDigital regularly sues mobile device makers in order to collect patent royalties. It is also important to note that, the reason why the company files lawsuits in addition to ITC complaints is because the ITC does not award damages.



http://www.fosspatents.com/2011/07/interdigital-sues-huawei-zte-and-nokia.html
http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/01/interdigital-files-new-itc-complaint.html


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3 comments:

  1. BillxzMarch 13, 2013 at 1:57 PM

    InterDigital seems like one of the Patent troll. It doesn't produce any product around it just suing everyone to collect royalties.

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  2. 997SMarch 14, 2013 at 4:24 AM

    IDCC is an NPE not a troll. They employ approx 200 highly qualified engineers that invent wireless solutions that are used in every wireless connection. They have made physical products in the past.

    There R&D effort would be the equivalent of many large corporations.

    Fosspatents is a troll for his paying customers who don't want to pay inventors a FRAND rate for their patented inventions. His customers would rather litigate using endless legal delay tactics then pay a FRAND rate.
    The ITC is their only solution and the infringers are screaming because it appears as they could lose in that venue.

    For the record Nokia has probably sued them more than vice versa.

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  3. UnknownMarch 16, 2013 at 1:18 PM

    interdigital is a very established wireless telecommunications research and development company, not a troll. the reason why they seem less known to the public (which shouldn't be the case, really) is that they focus on B2B instead of directly selling products to general consumers

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