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The world’s largest cell phone manufacturer Nokia, within six weeks at the beginning of October Apple, Samsung, LG and other eight runners trial, Finnish technology giant said the mobile phone manufacturers and suppliers to use our intellectual property.But and rescue organized regularly exchanged

key technologies, from the standard of the lawsuit brought by Nokia.

Like many cell phone makers, Nokia is fighting an economic slowdown. The company has laid off thousands of employees this year, a decline in sales, profits and market share of the global anti-infiltration, and another 41 percent in the third quarter fell 35 percent.

Charles River Ventures partner Bill Tai that aggression is a new legal “natural development” in the semiconductor and PC business is like during the time it difficult or competitive.

“Since 1970, Mr. Tai, who’s 2 dollars invested in technology companies about what is the highest margins and competition has increased, the poor, and even companies attempt to defend his position to put up barriers they do,” he said.

Mobile industry since its inception, has been the legal battle. In 2008, and approved Nokia Qualcomm, a maker of the United States of chips for mobile phones with one suit settled, and more than 15 years, and an estimated $ 400 million to Qualcomm for patents in general, to pay. According to the latest financial reports, and almost all mobile phone makers are being released or tried.

Research In Motion, the BlackBerry maker, to use the patent is 20 cases of Motorola, Motorola has countermeasures against. Pam Tyler, Texas, to license patents are issued by Saxon Innovations, third-party application processor. “Said Shigeru Saito Apple Architecture Institute in March and won the touch screen patent lawsuit against the governor in Japan.

Nokia IPCom, a patent holding company Robert Bosch, the German, who are in need to buy 160 portable patent portfolio includes 12 of the mobile is fighting the case.

, Arnold & Porter, a lawyer in the field of intellectual property in London, and Clive Thorne Nokia has been very active recently, “As usual, there was an increase in litigation in the industry,” he said. “And seek to achieve a technical advantage. Mobile phone technology is growing rapidly. Commercial life of products is limited. There is a need to ensure that intellectual property rights’. Re-protected ”

More recently, in October, Nokia has Apple in U.S. District Court in Delaware for the Nokia third-generation wireless phone on 10 alleged violations of the patent. Then, in the United States and Britain, Nokia, Samsung, LG, Philips and Sharp and the Commission to conduct on others to maintain the prices of LCD charged higher.

Is, Nokia Director of Legal Affairs Louise Pentland said the company has changed the legal strategy. What, he said, is the dynamics of the mobile phone business: industry suppliers of new faces and the Internet via mobile phones, and convergence between information technology and other industries as well as increase the scope of the test.

Says Ms. “Puntland” litigation is not the driver, said during an interview. “We have changed the business environment.”

Another reason for this increase in rogue sophisticated equipment for mobile phones and tireless efforts have increased the number of patents requested by the manufacturers, Armenia, Cambridge, England, one in one company and said that Executive Vice President Ian pulled cortex most manufacturers in the world cell phone, cell phone chip design suppliers licensed.

In contrast, at the hands of customers, and their own product, which appeared in the foundation of patent protection through the use of design. The so-called discrimination patents, Mr. attracted about everything from chips, said input method to the touch screen, the legal battle likely scenario.

“A cell phone industry, semiconductors, and this time the situation there is a lot of players competing on the phone,” said Mr. ‘re-attract. “Given that there are many young players, which is a more dynamic and you’re going to fight alien”

Such as mobile phones, laptops, and intellectual property rights in the market in their search for manufacturers of mobile equipment to increase profits will take on importance.

In Sunnyvale, California, for example, Rosum Corp., a nine-year-old technology company that television broadcast signals in dense urban areas with the help of mobile devices has developed a method to determine the physical location and safety of their investments quickly.

Privately-owned company’s 24 staff members only, but has already received or applied for 71 patents.

,, Rosum Todd Young, vice president for business development in “a great deal of care we have taken to protect our technology,” he said. “We believe it is important to our business.”

These investments can be risky. When the company has a patent infringement claim, it is often counter-offensive against the rival – and Apple, and countermeasures against Nokia – usually claims the patent in question is no longer valid. He said in the suit that goes to the test and the test charge placed on the validity of the patent. Many times, you may be a high cost of legal protection and victory will be expensive.

In July, RIM, for example, to pay 267.5 million $ to your mobile e-mail, the horizon, ending three years after a row with just one case the violation agreed upon. R.I.M. Nearly two-thirds of its shareholders that the settlement – a $ 168 million – would go to cover legal fees.

Such a result because Apple, Nokia, Samsung and others do not respond to a lawsuit against the large stakes recently, Swedbank, Sweden, the largest banks in Stockholm in one of the analyst said in January Ihrfelt. Nokia against Apple filed after two years of iPhone sales, but was told that Mr. Ihrfelt, and suggested that a symbolic line in the sand was the same.

He said that “any hope that a financial windfall from Nokia such cases,” Mr. Ihrfelt will. “I think it was more trying to send a message to Nokia.”