Sisvel International, the notorious IP management firm that made headlines in 2010 by teaming with Apple and Siemens to call in a police raid at the CeBIT trade show, is rearming itself. The company announced yesterday that it has acquired hundreds of Nokia-owned wireless patents. Who’s ready for some litigation?
According to Sisvel, it has purchased 47 patent families — comprised of 450 separate patents and applications — that were originally filed by Nokia. 350 of of these, Nokia had deemed “essential” to multiple wireless standards including GSM, UMTS/WCDMA and LTE. A large number also deal with video encoding optimisation — understandable given Sisvel’s extensive existing video technology patent pools.
“Sisvel has been extremely active in recent years working with the wireless industry to provide simplified access to essential wireless patents on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory, or FRAND, conditions,” said Sisvel CEO Giustino de Sanctis in a press release. We’ll have to wait and see if Sisvel’s “fair and reasonable” methodology results in any additional police actions. [BGR - Engadget]
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Sasha
Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 7:47 PMLet me try and connect a few dots here:
1) Microsoft pours many billions of dollars into Nokia.
2) Nokia abandons its excellent, long anticipated Linux based smartphone platform, goes all Windows
3) Nokia sells key assets to notorious patent troll. This allows them to be used to sue competitors without tarnishing Nokia too much.
Side note – please remember that arguably the largest patent troll today is the former CTO of Microsoft, Myhrvold, and his “Intellectual Ventures” with its thousands of subsidiary lawsuit factories.
So, expect another iteration of the classic M$ strategy: build an OK product, and carry around a Santa Claus sized bag of dirty tricks if everyone in the world doesn’t fall head over heels for it.
Osiris Fox
Monday, January 16, 2012 at 12:26 PMSo M$ is the only software company ever to play dirty? You my friend are very naive.
Sasha
Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 7:49 PMOh, and P.S. Nokia CEO is a former executive at Microsoft.
F****** bastards. I don’t care how fancy WP7 is, I swear on my blood those sharks will never see a dime out of me in my life.
Nicholas
Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 10:02 AMGah hate reading this.
“comprised of”
comprisedpast participle, past tense of com·prise (Verb)Verb: Consist of; be made up of: “the country comprises twenty states”.
Make up; constitute.
so you are saying “consists of of”.
MD
Monday, January 16, 2012 at 12:43 AMNicholas, what’s wrong with that, US speaking is usually as bad as that, you know, already, So what ‘of of’ it.
Come off of it…..
Get over it.
No one knows that you mean by past participle, not even me.
Affect effect, most people don’t know the difference, even educated ones.
Osiris Fox
Monday, January 16, 2012 at 12:32 PMYour desire to affect people is a very effective.