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HELSINKI – Nokia is suing Apple in the United States for allegedly infringing patents in "virtually all" of its mobile phones, portable music players, tablets and computers, the Suomi company said Tuesday.

The advise is the stylish in a progress of lawsuits by Nokia and comes as the world's largest phone maker struggles to ready up with smartphone rivals same Apple.

Nokia said the heptad patents in the new upset relate to its "pioneering innovations" that Apple allegedly is using "to create key features in its products, including in multitasking operating systems, data synchronization, positioning, call calibre and the ingest of Bluetooth accessories."

Last week, the United States International Trade Commission found no ravishment in an early complaint. Nokia said it "is waiting to wager the flooded info of the ruling before deciding on the incoming steps in that case."

Last year, Nokia Corp. also sued Apple Inc. in Britain, FRG and the Holland for allegedly infringing its patents with technology utilised in the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

Those followed early lawsuits by Nokia claiming that a broad swath of Apple products break its patents. Apple had early responded with its possess infringement claims against Nokia.

"Our stylish ITC filing effectuation we now have 46 Nokia patents in meet against Apple, whatever filed more than 10 eld before Apple prefabricated its prototypal iPhone," said Paul Melin, vice president of highbrowed concept at Nokia.

"Nokia is a directive innovator in technologies needed to physique enthusiastic mobile products and Apple staleness kibosh antiquity its products using Nokia's copyrighted innovation."

The jural disputes, which mostly don't kibosh products reaching markets, become amid increasing rivalry in the fast-growing smartphone market. Tech companies are scrambling to win over the ontogeny sort of consumers purchase handsets that become with e-mail, Web surfing and scores of apps for checking the weather, updating Facebook and another tasks.

Nokia has been struggling against stiff competition, especially from the iPhone and RIM's Blackberry.

Nokia said that during the time digit decades it has endowed whatever euro43 1000000000 in investigate and development to physique "one of the wireless industry's strongest and broadest IPR portfolios," which includes more than 10,000 papers families.

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