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Apple has started legal proceedings against Nokia in the UK, turning the ongoing dispute between the two companies into a transatlantic affair. Reuters reports that Apple is citing the same patents it's already accused Nokia of infringing in the USA, related to touch-screen and interface techniques. Nokia, meanwhile, has …

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  1. Mark Berry
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    Well, it's one way.....

    to get someone else to pay for you to visit the 2012 Olympics.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Headmaster

    either company in the ether?

    Some time next year the ITC will decide if either company has a case to answer, and could ban US imports of infringing devices, which would be critical for ether company, though more damaging for Apple given Nokia's limited US presence.

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  3. JaitcH
    Jobs Horns

    What's so attravtive to Apple in UK jurisprudence?

    May be the Learned Beak should postpone all proceedings in this matter until the US trade and court system has ruled on the matter.

    I can understand people choosing the UK for libel cases, although this legal tourist activity is about to be curtailed, but why the UK for technology cases?

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