HI JOAN, A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOURS,
STAY SAFE FOR THE NEW YEAR
PAUL
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Hi everyone
I'd like to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and best wishes for 2017
Regards Joan
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[fb-exchange] Re: Christmas Good Wishes To All.
[fb-exchange] Nokia sues Apple for infringing patents
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From: Ita Carroll <itacarroll123@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 23:43:04 +0000
Subject: [fb-exchange] Re: Christmas Good Wishes To All.
And best bashes and it very happy Christmas and prosperous new year to you
and everyone
Sent from my iPhone
On 20 Dec 2016, at 17:57, Kenneth Walsh <kennethwalsh12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks for that Paul. The same to you.
Best wishes,
Ken
On 20 Dec 2016, at 17:32, Paul Dromey <pdromey@xxxxxx> wrote:===========================================================
Hereââ,¬â"¢s Wishing Everyone On This List A Happy And Peaceful
Christmas
And
All
The Best For 2017.
Particular thanks to John Delaney and Cearbhall Ãf³ Meadhra; also to
Dublin
stalwarts PÃf¡draig, Michael, Tony and Tim for helping to get the Cork
club
off the ground and to Paul and Ken for keeping the rest of us in touch
with
the Dublin and Cork groups, not forgetting Derry for organising the
library
meeting place here in Cork. Also to Dominique for some very useful and
practical Apple tips over the course of the year.
Kind regards to all
Paul
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From: "Dominique Farrell" <hollyandopal@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [fb-exchange] Nokia sues Apple for infringing patents
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 14:27:29 -0000
Nokia has filed a number of lawsuits against Apple for violating 32
technology patents, striking back at the iPhone maker's legal action
targeting the one-time mobile phone industry leader a day earlier.
Nokia's lawsuits were filed in courts in Dusseldorf, Mannheim and Munich
in
Germany, and in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
They cover patents for displays, user interfaces, software, antennas,
chipsets and video coding.
"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," Nokia said in a statement.
Apple earlier this week had taken legal action against Acacia Research and
Conversant Intellectual Property Management, accusing them of colluding
with
Nokia to extract and extort exorbitant revenues unfairly from Apple.
"We've always been willing to pay a fair price to secure the rights of
patents covering technology in our products," said Apple spokesman Josh
Rosenstock.
"Unfortunately, Nokia has refused to license their patents on a fair basis
and is now using the tactics of a patent troll to attempt to extort money
from Apple by applying a royalty rate to Apple's own inventions they had
nothing to do with."
The legal action by Nokia and Apple appear to mark a revival of the
"smartphone patent wars" that began five years ago, when Apple filed a
series of patent infringement cases against Samsung Electronics around the
world, with wins and losses on both sides.
Apple's lawsuit against Acacia, Conversant and Nokia was filed only one
day
after Ottawa-based Conversant named Boris Teksler as its new chief
executive.
He had worked as Apple's director of patent licensing and strategy from
2009
to 2013, the latter half of his tenure overlapping with the lawsuits
against
Samsung.
Acacia is a publicly traded patent licensing firm based in Newport Beach,
California. One of its subsidiaries sued Apple for patent infringement and
was awarded $22m by a Texas jury in September.
Similarly, Conversant, which claims to own thousands of patents, announced
last week that a Silicon Valley jury had awarded one of its units a $7.3m
settlement in an infringement case against Apple involving two smartphone
patents.
Nokia, once the world's dominant mobile phone maker, missed out on the
transition to smartphones triggered by Apple's introduction of the iPhone
in
2007.
The Finnish company sold its handset business to Microsoft two years ago,
leaving it with its telecom network equipment business and a bulging
portfolio of mobile equipment patents.
But this year, Microsoft sold its Nokia-feature phone business to a new
company called HMD Global.
Nokia agreed to a 10-year licensing deal with HMD, which continues to
market
low-cost Nokia phones and plans to introduce new Nokia smartphone models
next year.
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