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2013-12-08 , 02:24
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Originally Posted by vartanarsen View Post
Hi guys, i was thinking about this the other day, has anyone noticed a lot of borrowed elements of MeeGo in Sailfish (ie. double tap to wake)? Since these were elements of a Nokia phone built by Nokia employees, does that intellectual property not belong to Nokia, and thus now Microsoft? Isn't the sailfish gang worried about it a bit?
Couple of things.

I'm not sure if Jolla was officially part of Nokia's Bridge program, but people from Jolla have said many times that they have everything more than fine with Nokia. Nicely shown by Nokia and Jolla partnering with HERE maps.

Second, Microsoft bought half of Nokia, Nokia's device & services side. Nokia holds NSN, HERE and Advanced Technologies.
Advanced technologies is about Nokia Research and most of all it's the holder of Nokia patents. Microsoft bought the rights to use Nokia patents for 10 years for 1.65 billion. Nokia owns the patents and is the one getting the money stream out of them.
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