In a case filed late last month with the Federal Court for the Eastern District of Texas, New Zealand-based inventor Michael Sutton has claimed that technology used by mobile phone giant Nokia infringes on a patent that he has held since the late 1990s.
The patent in question, No. 5,771,238, covers:
"Transmission (206) and reception techniques and apparatus (209) allow a restricted seven bit one way radio data network, such as a paging network (202), to transmit eight bit ASCII and binary data. The encoding and decoding techniques preferably include encryption and decryption of transmitted data. Command and control functions may thus be transmitted in addition to normal messages which with suitable receiver decoders (209) allow remote reconfiguration and management of the receivers (203)."
The complaint filed by Mr Sutton argues that Nokia has 'wilfully' infringed his patent, citing features of the firm's phone technology including "messaging applications running on Nokia phone devices which enable MMS messages and SMS messages, including the transmitting of ring tones, Operator Logos, CLI Logos, vCards, vCalendars; Nokia’s Smart Messaging Service Center applications; those applications that implement the Computer Interface to Message Distribution protocol; and Nokia’s implementation of the WAP 2.0, 1.2, 1.1, and 1.0 in its phone devices".
Nokia has stated its intention to defend itself against the NZ inventor's claims, which were filed in a previous case subsequently withdrawn by Mr Sutton.
"We will analyse the details of the new case ... and actively defend the rights of Nokia," a spokeswoman told the AAP last week.
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