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EU: Bury joins Daimler in calling for Nokia patent probe

By  |  April 9, 2019

German electronics company Bury has asked European Union antitrust regulators to investigate Nokia’s licensing practices on patents essential to car communications, the second such complaint after Daimler.

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    While companies with key patents are expected to offer these on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, the lack of clear rules on calculating license fees and terms inevitably lead to disputes when companies fail to agree on the charges reported Reuters.

    Bury, a family-owned company with production plants in Germany, Poland, and Mexico, announced it had filed a complaint to the European Commission.

    “Nokia refuses to license mobile components. Instead, Nokia insists on indirect licensing of the entire vehicle,” Bury said in a statement.

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