When you're as big as Apple, you're bound to win some and lose some. This week, Apple wound up with the short stick, with a Delaware court ruling that the iPhone maker infringed on three patents from a holding company with ties to Sony and Nokia.
MobileMedia Ideas announced Thursday that the company scored a courtroom victory over Apple in the U.S. District Court in Delaware, with a "unanimous verdict" siding with the patent holding company over three infringements.
The trio of patents in question relate to camera phones, call handling and call rejection, although the legal challenge originally included 18 of the company's more than 300 patents.
MobileMedia Ideas is owned by Tagivan, itself a subsidiary of MPEG LA, as well as minority investors Nokia and Sony, the latter who provided at least one patent related to digital picture frames which the court refused to validate.
"MobileMedia Ideas is pleased that the jury confirmed Apple's iPhones use our patented technology," said MobileMedia Ideas President and CEO Larry Horn. "MobileMedia Ideas' objective is to make these important technologies and others used in mobile phone and other portable devices widely available. We welcome Apple and others to enter into licenses for the use of these technologies."
The company also has pending litigation against BlackBerry maker Research in Motion and Android OEM HTC in Texas. There is no word on which iPhone models the patents apply to.
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