Nokia Seeks to Ban BlackBerry Handsets Over Patents
Finnish company wants RIM's handsets to be banned in the U.S., UK and Canada.
Nokia has requested a U.S. court to ban the sale of every single BlackBerry handset in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.
The Finnish company believes every BlackBerry handset currently available on the market all infringe on a patent it owns that pertains to Wi-Fi connectivity.
Passed earlier during 2012, a ruling found that Nokia was the rightful patent owner, but Research in Motion has yet to deliver the license fees to legitimately use the Wi-Fi technology in question.
The BlackBerry owner, however, stressed that an earlier licensing deal should cover the Wi-Fi patent and it doesn't want to pay a second fee. The Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, which is mediating the discussions between the two firms, disagreed.
Elsewhere, Nokia is suing RIM in German courts for allegedly infringing patents related to media tags, data sharing and software update methods.

its easy for them it's not like they are reaching down
Fungi
its easy for them it's not like they are reaching down
Fungi
This is just getting stupid.
Imagine if back in the 80's no one but Sony could make portable tape players(everyone was making the damn things) and cd players(same deal) in the 90's.
That's just wrong and it makes me mad that its funny as hell too.
RIM responded with a strongly worded letter... then sent an apology and flowers for its outburst.
Edit: History has basically shown that if Nokia takes you to the court, you've done something wrong.
This is like bums fighting over a trash can.
How can you sue someone over WI-FI? its honestly used by Billions of devices across the world and we all need it. Its a standard set up by the IEEE to make it easier for all devices to talk to one another.
Its these kind of things that make me not want to buy a nokia product. I also boycotted apple products because they are a bunch of whining babies who need to get over themselves.
You do realize that those standards are created by someone right? After cutting their R&D about 70%, Nokia still has the biggest R&D budget in the mobile sector. Antenna designs aren't part of the standard either (although I don't know what this current issue is about).