Updated Amazon has filed a complaint against Nokia, accusing the Finnish tech company of infringing a dozen of its patents.
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Specifically, Amazon has accused [PDF] Nokia of infringing patents around virtual machine and networking technology used on Amazon Web Services. The filing alleges that Nokia used the revoked technology in its cloud and network services division, which launched in 2020 and includes Nuage and CloudBand offshoots.
"Nokia's 'new corporate strategy' involved leveraging Amazon's innovative solutions, including Amazon's proprietary technology, to address issues facing cloud service providers," the filing said.
Amazon also took the opportunity to throw some shade at Nokia's business record. "Amazon's two decades of pioneering technological developments in cloud computing stand in stark contrast to Nokia's recent efforts," the complaint states. "Nokia's failure to anticipate the importance of smartphone technology brought it to the brink of bankruptcy in 2013." Nokia's phone division was bought by Microsoft that year for $7.2 billion, but the Finnish network business and its patent pool are very much at stake.
