InterDigital files ITC complaint against Nokia, Huawei, and ZTE for 3G patent infringement

Remember when InterDigital aired its grievances with Nokia before the International Trade Commission several years ago , alleging Espoo infringed a few of its 3G patents? Well, what’s old is new again, and the company’s filed another complaint with the ITC against the Finnish phone maker, Huawei, and ZTE, too. This time around, the hammer’s been forged from seven patents for various WCDMA and CDMA2000 technologies allegedly found in those companies’ phones, broadband dongles, and tablets. Reuters reports that, should the federal agency take up InterDigital’s cause, Huawei and Nokia will fight the good fight, and we imagine that ZTE won’t be rolling over, either. Of course, the ITC has 30 days to start an investigation, so we’ll know within a month if InterDigital’s latest IP fishing expedition has a shot to yield a bounty as big as it’s gotten before . Continue reading InterDigital files ITC complaint against Nokia, Huawei, and ZTE for 3G patent infringement InterDigital files ITC complaint against Nokia, Huawei, and ZTE for 3G patent infringement originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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