Nokia...A World Leader in Wireless Intellectual Property and Innovation

Since the early 1990's Nokia has invested close to €35 billion (over $US40 billion) in research and development to build one of the strongest and broadest intellectual property rights (IPR) portfolios in the wireless industry. We’ve invested heavily in innovation because our business is about delivering new technologies, products and services to our customers and consumers. Today Nokia is a clear leader in wireless innovation and the company is well positioned to maintain its IPR leadership into the future.

Nokia now owns approximately 11,000 patented innovations and its global patent portfolio includes approximately 42,000 patents and patent applications. Nokia files approximately 1,000 new patent applications annually.

Open Standards

Today’s mobile devices include a wide range of technologies and rely on intellectual property from a number of companies. The increasing interdependency between companies requires effective and defined ways of treating different interests and practices underlying the use of patents on which new technologies are based. Open standards provide the industry framework for advancing the development and deployment of new, interoperable technologies most efficiently.

Nokia has been extremely active in the standardization work in all major communications standards bodies, including ETSI, ITU and IETF.

Nokia’s IPR portfolio includes significant positions in all the major standards:

GSM

• Nokia is a founding member in GSM and the undisputed leader in GSM intellectual property
• Nokia owns approximately 45 percent of the IPR essential to the GSM standard, with close to 300 declared essential patent families.

Evolution of GSM to UMTS

• Nokia is also the world leader in the development of UMTS (also referred to as WCDMA) and it holds 30 percent1 of the intellectual property essential to this standard with approximately 370 essential patent family declarations.

CDMA2000

• Nokia’s CDMA2000 portfolio is strong with 13 percent1 share of IPR judged essential with approximately 150 declared essential patent families.

Long Term Evolution (LTE)

• Nokia is investing in LTE technology development and has committed to a licensing initiative to enhance the predictability and transparency of IPR licensing costs and foster a healthy IPR environment

Additional Cellular Technologies

• Nokia has a strong IPR position across major data applications and user interfaces (UI), including solid WiMAX, BREW, and MediaFlo patent portfolios.

A collaborative innovation model and open standards have underpinned the success of the cellular industry. During the last 15 years the global cellular subscriber base has exploded from 20 million to 3.4 billion subscribers.

Nokia believes that industry support for open standards is critical to delivering also the next generation of wireless innovation, and that all companies must uphold their commitments to standards organizations. Licensing

Essential IPR percentage estimates are according to research by Fairfield Resources International www.frlicense.com/index.html intellectual property on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms creates open and more predictable market conditions that stimulate innovation, foster competition and ensure the widespread adoption of technology.