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"[caption id=&amp;quot;&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;alignright&amp;quot; width=&amp;quot;333&amp;quot; caption=&amp;quot;image from Engadget&amp;quot;][/caption]\r\n\r\nFor the legal eagles, Nokia fans and Apple fans...\r\n\r\nIs it a surprise that Apple has responded to Nokia's International Trade Commission (ITC) request to ban imports of Apple devices with a US embargo request of its own?\r\n\r\nThe Notice of Apple's complaint was posted yesterday on the ITC's website.\u00A0 For those who don't know, the ITC is the US government agency that protects the US\u00A0 market from unfair trade practices. To date, there is no detail on Apple's complaint. (We'll update as info is released.)\r\n\r\nThe Next Web has been covering this escalating legal battle since its beginning.\u00A0 It started in October of last year when Nokia sued Apple for patent infringement regarding its GSM, UMTS and WiFi patents.\u00A0 Nokia later expanded the claim to cover a wider range of items by claiming:\r\n\r\n\r\n\tMultiple Apple's products infringe a patent that involes &amp;quot;combining multiple functionality of the camera on the same chip&amp;quot;\r\n\tiPhone infringes Nokia's patent (that saves space in the device) that &amp;quot;combines the antenna around the speaker&amp;quot;. As a bonus a patent around power saving is mentioned.\r\nThe article also reveals that in addition to the ITC complaint, Nokia has opened, or is going to open, a new case in the Delaware court in addition to the original case from October.  \r\n\r\nfrom the Nokia Views blog\r\n\r\nApple, of course, countersued: Apple countersues Nokia with dirty fighting talk.\r\n\r\nBefore people start yelling that these ITC claims are overkill, actually, ITC claims are standard in these sorts of legal battles:\r\nThe US International Trade Commission (ITC) provides an alternate      forum for US intellectual property owners seeking to enforce their rights      against infringing imports. The ITC typically hears claims of patent or trademark      infringement, but it can also investigate unfair competition claims such as      the misappropriation of trade secrets, passing off, and false advertising.      The ITC forum offers several advantages over US district court. The primary      advantage is that the ITC is required by statute to complete its proceedings      \u201Cat the earliest practicable time.\u201D Thus, the ITC will typically render its      final decision within 12 to 15 months after an action has been initiated.\r\n\r\nfrom Intellectual property litigation and the ITC\r\nNow that this brawl has spread to the ITC, I'm curious to see where it's going to go next.\r\n\r\nWhat do you think?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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