LG, Nokia Accused of Infringing Caltech Camera Patents
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Nokia Oyj, LG Electronics Inc. and chipmakers including STMicroelectronics NV were sued by the California Institute of Technology, which said the companies’ mobile phones and components infringe its patents.
Caltech, in a complaint filed Nov. 24 in federal court in Los Angeles, lists nine patents pertaining to camera technology that it says Nokia and LG phones, as well as phones made by Seoul-based Pantech Co., infringe. The research university, based in Pasadena, California, seeks unspecified damages for willful infringement.