Nokia shoe drops. RIM next?
Given that Nokia seems to be going nowhere pretty fast (cool new phones - yup. nifty Windows Mobile - yup. People caring - not so much), it was just a matter of time before they started going down the patent route, and I guess the first shoe just dropped. per The Verge, Nokia just announced that it's suing HTC, RIM, and Viewsonic for patent infringement in the US and Germany. All told, there are 45 patent in the various lawsuits, covering what Nokia says are proprietary technologies — i.e., not industry standards. Specifically, Nokia's patents cover hardware features like antennas, radios, and power management, as well as software features like multitasking, navigation, app stores, retrieving email attachments on mobile, "conversational" message display, dynamic menus, and certain types of data encryption. The patents in question makes these cases slightly different than Nokia's now-settled litigation with Apple, which involved several standards-relate...
