Nokia Expands Patent Infringement Case to iPads

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 7, 2010 

The Finnish cell phone maker Nokia Corporation said on Friday that it had extended its patent-infringement claims against Apple to include the new iPad. The latest complaint, filed in United States District Court in Madison, Wis., follows other lawsuits by Nokia claiming that a broad swath of Apple products violate Nokia patents.

Nokia’s latest lawsuit is aimed at the iPhone and the version of the iPad 3G that can connect to the Web using cell phone networks. An Apple spokesman, Steve Dowling, declined to comment on the new case but noted that Apple had filed infringement cases of its own against Nokia.