apple-company-store12 December 2009, Finland

Apple, the maker of iconic iphone , hit back in a legal row with nokia  countersued  the Finnish  telecom giant alleging it breached the  13 apple patents.

Apple accused the nokia , the world’s largest phone maker of infringing the patents held by the Cupertino , California Company. “Other company must compete  with us  by inventing their technologies, not just stealing ours.” Said  apple vice president Bruce swell said in a conference. The move came after  nokia in October  accused its  US rival of infringing 10 nokia mobile technology  patents  with Iphone. According to nokia,  the patents cover, “wireless data, speech coding, security, and encryption and are infringed by the all the iphone models  shipped since the iphone introduced in 2007.  Apple countersued  in federal  court in the eastern state of  Delaware, where the nokia filed the suit against the apple. Nokia is trying to buoy a sinking position in the mobile telephone market by  getting its hands on iphone  technology and charging “exorbitant” fees for patent  technology alleged intrinsic to industry  standards apple  charged.

Nokia demands appear to be driven by decline in its own mobiles phone business,” apple said.  Apple reported quarterly sales  of 7.4 million iphones in October. Nokia is already using apple smart phone without permission. Apple is asking the court  to award its unspecified financial damage and dismiss  the suit filed by nokia.