In a patent battle with Amazon, Nokia has emerged victorious in court after a German judge determined that Amazon is using Nokia’s exclusive video technologies without authorisation.
The Munich Regional Court ruled that due to infringement of Nokia’s video technology patent, Amazon was ordered to stop selling its Fire Stick streaming devices in Germany.
The Munich Regional Court’s decision to use Amazon’s “Nokia’s patented video-related technologies in its end-user streaming devices and is selling them illegally without a licence” was announced by Arvin Patel, Chief Licensing Officer of Nokia.
This decision is part of a larger legal case that Nokia has taken against Amazon, centred on the illegal use of its technologies in several products and services, such as Amazon Prime Video.
Amazon stated that it disagreed with the court’s judgement and anticipated the problem to be resolved quickly, without providing specifics.
“This ruling will not affect any existing customers and a wide selection of Fire TV devices will continue to be available on Amazon,” Amazon said in an emailed statement to Reuters, adding it was disappointed by Nokia’s actions, Reuters reported.
Amazon explained that it had collaborated with other businesses to license video patents, but Nokia demanded more than the others combined.
The e-commerce giant claimed its offer was fair and in line with market rates, but Nokia rejected it.
In July, Amazon filed a federal lawsuit against Nokia in Delaware, accusing the Finnish business of infringing on a dozen Amazon cloud computing patents.
In 2023, Nokia launched a case against Amazon for using its intellectual multimedia inventions in Germany, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as the European Unified Patent Court.
We earlier reported that the UK antitrust regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), has opened a formal investigation into the alliance between Amazon.com, Inc. and the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC.
