nokia has been making phones a long time, I'm sure they have lots of strong patents. Palm having made pda's and created the smartphone market have to be holding on to some juicy patents as well. Not to mention apple completely back down from trying to sue palm after the pre was revealed.

Between the 2 of them they would be fairly untouchable by apple and it would allow Nokia to take advantage of the lawsuit and challenge some of the more ridiculous apple patents that should have never been granted.