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Nokia strikes back at Qualcomm in patent battle June 12 2007 HELSINKI: Nokia Oyj, the world's top mobile phone maker, filed a patent counter-suit against Qualcomm Inc in a Texas court seeking damages and an injunction against the US chip maker. Nokia said yesterday it had filed a suit against Qualcomm accusing the firm of infringing six implementation patents in its MediaFLO mobile TV technology and its Brew mobile data technology. A legal dispute between the two has continued since part of a cross-licensing deal over technology patents expired on April 9, and their increasingly bitter battle is worrying investors and the industry on both sides of the Atlantic. "We see Qualcomm has copied our technology without compensating us, so we need to enforce our technologies and patents we have," Tero Ojanpera, Nokia's chief technology officer, said. Ojanpera said Nokia had a long history of innovation in the fields of IP broadcast television and mobile downloads and the US firm needs its patents for the broadcast quality of MediaFLO or to download programmes in Brew. Qualcomm has filed 11 patent suits against Nokia in less than two years, seeking damages and injunctions, so far without success. Last month Nokia filed its first counter- suit against Qualcomm, in Wisconsin, and related to chipset technologies. The legal dispute centres on Nokia's use of Qualcomm patents for high-speed 3G wireless technology, but it also has a bearing on Qualcomm's chips business, which Nokia says uses many Nokia- patented technologies. "We will continue to negotiate in good faith and want to resolve this as fast as possible. I think it is in everybody's interest to resolve this," Ojanpera said. - Reuters