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Nokia sues Apple in Europe and the US for infringement of Nokia patents

Nokia Corporation
Stock Exchange Release
December 21, 2016 at 20:08 (CET +1)

Nokia sues Apple in Europe and the US for infringement of Nokia patents

Espoo, Finland - Nokia announced that it has today filed a number of complaints
against Apple in Germany and the US, alleging that Apple products infringe a
number of Nokia patents.

As one of the world's leading innovators, and following the acquisition of full
ownership of NSN in 2013 and Alcatel-Lucent in 2016, Nokia now owns three
valuable portfolios of intellectual property. Built on more than EUR 115 billion
invested in R&D over the past twenty years, our tens of thousands of patents
cover many important technologies used in smartphones, tablets, personal
computers and similar devices.

Since agreeing a license covering some patents from the Nokia Technologies
portfolio in 2011, Apple has declined subsequent offers made by Nokia to license
other of its patented inventions which are used by many of Apple's products.

Ilkka Rahnasto, head of Patent Business at Nokia, said: "Through our sustained
investment in research and development, Nokia has created or contributed to many
of the fundamental technologies used in today's mobile devices, including Apple
products. After several years of negotiations trying to reach agreement to cover
Apple's use of these patents, we are now taking action to defend our rights."

These actions have been filed with the Regional Courts in Dusseldorf, Mannheim
and Munich in Germany and the US District Court for the Eastern District of
Texas, with 32 patents in suit across all of the actions, covering technologies
such as display, user interface, software, antenna, chipsets and video coding.
Nokia is in the process of filing further actions in other jurisdictions.


About Nokia

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connected world. Powered by the research and innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, we
serve communications service providers, governments, large enterprises and
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services and licensing.

From the enabling infrastructure for 5G and the Internet of Things, to emerging
applications in virtual reality and digital health, we are shaping the future of
technology to transform the human experience. www.nokia.com


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