Nokia turns up the heat in IPR battle with Qualcomm
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Published:
Week 43
October 2006 -
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Nokia/Qualcomm
Nokia’s CFO made the following statements during the call:
- Nokia has invested over €25 billion in IPR to date
- Nokia has over 11 thousand patent families
- Nokia is a “world leader in multiple wireless technologies” - Simonson identified the following technologies in this context: GSM, EDGE, W-CDMA, HSPA, WiMAX, LTE, TD-SDCMA and CDMA2000
- Nokia has more than 250 essential patents in GSM
- Nokia has 350 patents in W-CDMA
- 20 percent of Nokia’s patent portfolio is standards related and in broad use by competitors
NOTE: all items listed above were transcribed from the Nokia third quarter earnings call

