U.S. International Trade Commission rules in Nokia/InterDigital case
Nokia Corp. of Espoo, Finland, announced a United States International Trade Commission (ITC) judge issued an Initial Determination in favour of Nokia in the action brought by InterDigital against Nokia. The case, filed by InterDigital, alleged Nokia infringed four patents that InterDigital asserts to be essential for the UMTS (3G) mobile standard. The judge found there is no infringement of the four alleged patents and therefore, Nokia is not in violation of section 337 of the Tariff Act.
The judge’s Initial Determination, issued Aug. 14, is consistent with a previous judgment in the United Kingdom that found several InterDigital patents not to be essential to the UMTS mobile standard.
The judge’s Initial Determination will now be forwarded to the full Commission for review. The Commission is scheduled to make its Final Determination by around Dec. 14. Ahead of the Final Determination, Nokia will continue to present its case to the ITC.
