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New York, NY, USA - Nokia announced today that a United States
International Trade Commission (ITC) judge issued an Initial
Determination in favour of Nokia in the action brought by
InterDigital against Nokia. The case, filed by InterDigital, alleged
that Nokia infringed four patents that InterDigital asserts to be
essential for the UMTS (3G) mobile standard. The judge found that
there is no infringement of the four alleged patents and therefore,
Nokia is not in violation of section 337 of the Tariff Act.
The judge's Initial Determination, issued on August 14, 2009, is
consistent with a previous judgment in the United Kingdom that found
several InterDigital patents not to be essential to the UMTS mobile
standard.
"As a leading innovator Nokia respects valid and used IPR and expects
others to do the same", said Ilkka Rahnasto, vice president, Nokia
Legal and Intellectual Property. "We are willing to compensate other
contributors with what is fair and reasonable for such IPR, however
in the case of unrealistic and unwarranted demands, we are prepared
to ensure through litigation that our rights are protected. We
believe this initial determination by the ITC combined with earlier
UK court decisions provide a strong indication that the asserted
value of InterDigital's 3G patent portfolio may have been
over-estimated."
The judge's Initial Determination will now be forwarded to the full
Commission for review. The Commission is scheduled to make its Final
Determination by around December 14, 2009. Ahead of the Final
Determination, Nokia will continue to present its case to the ITC.
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leading maker of mobile devices. Today, we are connecting people in
new and different ways - fusing advanced mobile technology with
personalized services to enable people to stay close to what matters
to them. We also provide comprehensive digital map information
through NAVTEQ; and equipment, solutions and services for
communications networks through Nokia Siemens Networks.
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suppliers and collaborative partners; 2) the development of the
mobile and fixed communications industry, as well as the growth and
profitability of the new market segments that we target and our
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manufacturing and logistics, as well as to ensure the quality,
safety, security and timely delivery of our products, services and
solutions; 14) inventory management risks resulting from shifts in
market demand; 15) our ability to protect the complex technologies,
which we or others develop or that we license, from claims that we
have infringed third parties' intellectual property rights, as well
as our unrestricted use on commercially acceptable terms of certain
technologies in our products, services and solutions; 16) our ability
to protect numerous Nokia, NAVTEQ and Nokia Siemens Networks
patented, standardized or proprietary technologies from third-party
infringement or actions to invalidate the intellectual property
rights of these technologies; 17) any disruption to information
technology systems and networks that our operations rely on; 18)
developments under large, multi-year contracts or in relation to
major customers; 19) the management of our customer financing
exposure; 20) our ability to retain, motivate, develop and recruit
appropriately skilled employees; 21) whether, as a result of
investigations into alleged violations of law by some former
employees of Siemens AG ("Siemens"), government authorities or others
take further actions against Siemens and/or its employees that may
involve and affect the carrier-related assets and employees
transferred by Siemens to Nokia Siemens Networks, or there may be
undetected additional violations that may have occurred prior to the
transfer, or violations that may have occurred after the transfer, of
such assets and employees that could result in additional actions by
government authorities; 22) any impairment of Nokia Siemens Networks
customer relationships resulting from the ongoing government
investigations involving the Siemens carrier-related operations
transferred to Nokia Siemens Networks; 23) unfavorable outcome of
litigations; 24) allegations of possible health risks from
electromagnetic fields generated by base stations and mobile devices
and lawsuits related to them, regardless of merit; as well as the
risk factors specified on pages 11-28 of Nokia's annual report on
Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2008 under Item 3D. "Risk
Factors." Other unknown or unpredictable factors or underlying
assumptions subsequently proving to be incorrect could cause actual
results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking
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update or revise forward-looking statements, whether as a result of
new information, future events or otherwise, except to the extent
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