Apple and Nokia Battle Over Cellphone Patents [telecom]

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By VINDU GOEL and MARK SCOTT

SAN FRANCISCO - Apple's iPhone is a technological marvel. You can watch streaming video on it, download apps, take photos with its camera and give voice commands to Siri, its digital assistant. You can even make old-fashioned voice calls on it.

Nokia, the Finnish company that was the world's largest cellphone maker until its business was decimated by Apple and makers of Android-based phones, claims none of those features would exist without its inventions, which were made over many years and after billions of dollars were invested in research.