The burgeoning legal challenges to Apple over its rapid advances in mobile computing mounted yesterday when Finland's Nokia launched a patent infringement suit over the iPad.
Nokia accused Apple in a US federal court in Wisconsin of infringing five patents in the iPad, which has sold 1m units since its US debut in March.
Nokia's suit cites technology used to enhance speech and data transmission and antenna innovations that allow for more compact devices.
"These patented innovations are important to Nokia's success as they allow improved product performance and design," the Finnish company said in a statement. Apple had no immediate response.
The Finnish company, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, is already in dispute with Apple over alleged patent infringement in the iPhone.
IDC said yesterday that Nokia's smartphone market share in the first quarter was flat at 39 per cent, while Apple saw its share of the shipments jump to 16 per cent from 11 per cent a year ago, closing in on Canada's Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry, which occupies second spot. Overall, smartphone sales rose 57 per cent in the quarter.
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