EU warns Nokia not to become a patent troll


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Joaquin Almunia, Europe’s top regulator has warned Nokia not to try to become a ‘patent troll’ after the Finnish company sold most of its cellphone-making business to Microsoft Corp. this year but retained its patent portfolio.

He said in a speech in Paris on Monday he had approved the $7.2 billion sale as not presenting problems on Microsoft’s side, but there is a danger Nokia will now attempt to ‘extract higher returns’ from its patent portfolio.

“In other words...behave like a patent troll, or to use a more polite phrase, a patent assertion entity.”

Almunia also warned he will open an antitrust case against the company if it attempts to take ‘illegal advantage’ of its patents.

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