Over the last eight years the U.S. International Trade Commission has weathered a big uptick in patent challenges related to mobile technology, attacks on its ability to hear complaints brought by so-called nonpracticing entities, and an eventual decline in new patent cases. All the while patent licensing company InterDigital Inc. has plowed ahead with an ITC case it brought in 2007 against Nokia Inc. and Microsoft Corp.—and now it’s finally won a key ruling from an ITC administrative law judge.
In an initial determination issued on Monday, Judge Theodore Essex held that certain Nokia devices infringe two InterDigital patents related to 3G-network technology. InterDigital claims that Nokia, now owned by Microsoft, violated Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 by importing phones that infringe the 3G patents. Its complaint alleges that Nokia refused to license the patents on fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory (FRAND) terms, as required for industry standard technology.
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