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Nokia on Tuesday sought to enforce an injunction against Lenovo, the world's biggest PC maker, to block sales of its products in Germany after violation of a video encoding patent.
A Munich court ruled
on Sept. 30 that Hong Kong-listed Lenovo infringed one of Nokia's
patents, ordered an injunction and a recall of products from retailers,
among other things.
Nokia launched its legal battle against
Lenovo last year over alleged infringement of 20 patents. The Finnish
company has ongoing cases against Lenovo in the United States, Brazil
and India, in addition to six cases in Germany.
Lenovo has appealed against the Munich court ruling.
"We
believe Nokia has violated its own legal obligations by refusing to
license its technology on Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND)
terms to either Lenovo or our third-party suppliers whose parts include
H.264 technology," a Lenovo statement said.
H.264 technology is a
video compression format widely used in smartphones and computers.
Nokia has previously sued Apple for infringing its patents and received
https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/28/apple-paid-nokia-2-billion-as-part-of-a-patent-lawsuit-settlement
$2 billion in settlement in 2017.
The Munich court, the judgment
of which applies only to Germany, rejected Lenovo's assertion that
Nokia had not complied with FRAND obligations.
Nokia said that
Lenovo has been unwilling to enter discussions, and can resolve the
matter by accepting its responsibilities and agreeing a licence on fair
terms.
"Nokia is demanding a highly-inflated global royalty rate
that is more than 50 times what Lenovo believes is reasonable and
appropriate," a source at Lenovo said.
A Nokia spokesman declined to disclose financial details.
Source: finance.yahoo.com
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