Year: 2010

AT&T Wireless CEO Ralph de la Vega doesn’t think his company will suffer too much if and when a Verizon version of the iPhone is released, reports “Silicon Alley Insider” (http://www.businessinsider.com/att-wireless-ceo-heres-why-we-wont-get-our-butts-kicked-when-the-iphone-goes-to-verizon-2010-5).

Though he didn’t say that AT&T’s exclusivity with the iPhone in the US is ending anytime soon, this morning at the JPMorgan tech conference, he said AT&T wasn’t too worried because:

Another day, another lawsuit. Nokia has announced the filing of yet another lawsuit against Apple, in Federal District Court in Wisconsin, regarding five of Nokia’s patents. Nokia says those patents are infringed by the iPhone and iPad 3G and involve technology that improves speech and data transmission with new antenna configurations and positioning of data in applications.

Another day, another lawsuit. Apple, HTC and Research in Motion are being sued by St. Clair Intellectual Property Consultants (http://stclairipc.com/) for allegedly violating six US patents, reports “Bloomberg” (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-17/apple-htc-corp-research-in-motion-sued-over-u-s-patents.html?cmpid=yhoo).

St. Clair says the defendants are using the protected inventions in their smartphones and tablets without permission. The suit was filed yesterday in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware.