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Nokia and Blackberry-maker RIM settle over patents, abandon suitsAFP HELSINKI -- Finnish mobile giant Nokia said on Friday it was withdrawing all its lawsuits against Blackberry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) after reaching an agreement on patent licensing.
December 22, 2012, 12:12 am TWN Last month Nokia filed lawsuits in the United States, Britain and Canada against RIM claiming it had breached an agreement on using Nokia patents on WLAN local area network technology. “We are very pleased to have resolved our patent licensing issues with RIM and reached this new agreement, while maintaining Nokia's ability to protect our unique product differentiation,” said Paul Melin, chief intellectual property officer at Nokia, in a statement. |
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