NOKIA shelling Qualcomm said its use of patent discrimination against customers

"Qualcomm made some unfair competition, especially in violation of the European antitrust regulations, so we six companies to the prosecution." In the last week of the Chinese NOKIA Technology Innovation Conference, NOKIA's global chief strategy officer Outairuo publicly admitted to the outside world has been formally charged qualcomm.

On Monday, sources said, NOKIA, Broadcom, Ericsson, NEC, Panasonic and TI six companies jointly sued the European Union Qualcomm, directed at the current 3G (the third generation mobile communication) technology.

Outairuo pointed out that Qualcomm's illegal acts including discrimination using their patent discrimination to customers; high charge WCMDA basic patent fee is too high and disproportionate. Outairuo revealed that the EU is investigating.

In the world's three major 3G technology, Qualcomm firmly in control of CDMA2000, while the market is the headquarters of the WCDMA technology in europe.

As the originator of CDMA technology, the United States Qualcomm Corp control the right to speak CDMA technology. A large number of Chinese companies, including Chinese manufacturers, including the high cost of the patent, but around the threshold. The fight against Qualcomm monopoly has been going on.

The face of a new round of collective resistance, Qualcomm said: there is no factual and legal basis for prosecution." Qualcomm's U.S. headquarters said in response to the statement, the parties involved in the lawsuit is the initiative and Qualcomm signed a license agreement. And pointed out that the purpose of these six companies are trying to sue the government to reduce patent fees.

Patent technology is the source of the whole industry chain, China is about to start 3G, intellectual property issues are hot. In April this year, the official 3G patent negotiations publicly, occupy the active position of multinational companies for intellectual property is too expensive, will further restrict the rapid development of mobile communication industry.

If lost, Qualcomm may face collective betrayal". And this will also have a greater impact on the Chinese version of 3G technology patent negotiations.