Nokia Escalates Patent Wars by Taking on German Lenovo Sales

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I find it quite fascinating that there seems to be no recognized English source on the actual sales block, while there are plenty credible sources in German.

> If the higher court overturns the injunction, the enforcing company has to compensate the other side for any lost sales, which can be substantial.

Based on this, I'd expect some dent in Lenovo's stock value. I thought information like that would take minutes to hit major news portals rather than hours or days.

The article talkes about threatening to block sales. But apparently Lenovo has already stopped selling devices using the video codec completely. The German online store has currently only accessories to offer.

Yep, here's an article about it (unfortunately in german): https://www.heise.de/news/Patentstreit-mit-Nokia-Lenovo-stop...

> Das Gericht will mit dem Verkaufsstopp beide Unternehmen an einen Tisch zwingen, damit sie ein Lizenzabkommen aushandeln.

This roughly translates to: With this sales ban, the court wants to bring both parties back to the table so they negotiate a license agreement.

This doesn't make sense to me. Doesn't the sales ban only force Lenovo into accepting an unreasonably high license fee so they can minimize the damage?

If not this the only other thing that can happen is Nokia maximizing the damage.

Interesting that Nokia doesn't sue the chip manufacturers but a computer manufacturer who just installs the chips.

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