Auto maker Daimler AG, parts supplier Continental AG and technology licensing company Nokia are playing a global chess match over patents essential to connected cars.
Continental made the latest move Wednesday, asking U.S. Magistrate Judge Nathaneal Cousins of San Jose to block Nokia from pursuing patent infringement actions against Daimler in three different German courts. Continental’s motion for an anti-suit injunction contends that Nokia is threatening to disrupt Daimler’s automobile production before Cousins can decide whether Nokia is licensing its 2G, 3G and 4G patents on fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory (FRAND) terms.
