Day One Hundred and Thirty Two

Arrived office 7.45am.....left office 8.15pm Monster Day!

One of the key team on event has gone down with flu (was suspected swine for for a short time but thankfully not). This has meant much more running around and things I had assumed were all sorted (like booking of venues 3 days before the event) are perhaps not as secure as I thought. Lesson learnt, check and recheck and don't assume...my new motto.

As a result I'll be at airport at midnight Friday night picking up first arrivals.

Long day as I say, wondered home, got in at 9pm, watched half hour of telly and went to bed. Glad I'm being paid an hourly rate!

Oh and got this press release, this will get very interesting purely from an outsiders view...

NOKIA PRESS RELEASE October 22, 2009

Nokia sues Apple in Delaware District Court for infringement of Nokia GSM, UMTS and WLAN patents

Espoo, Finland - Nokia announced that it has today filed a complaint against Apple with the Federal District Court in Delaware, alleging that Apple's iPhone infringes Nokia patents for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) standards. As a leading innovator in wireless communications, Nokia has created one of the strongest and broadest patent portfolios in the industry, investing more than EUR 40 billion in R&D during the last two decades. Much of this intellectual property, including the patents in suit, has been declared essential to industry standards. Nokia has already successfully entered into license agreements including these patents with approximately 40 companies, including virtually all the leading mobile device vendors, allowing the industry to benefit from Nokia's innovation. The ten patents in suit relate to technologies fundamental to making devices which are compatible with one or more of the GSM, UMTS (3G WCDMA) and wireless LAN standards.

The patents cover wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption and are infringed by all Apple iPhone models shipped since the iPhone was introduced in 2007. "The basic principle in the mobile industry is that those companies who contribute in technology development to establish standards create intellectual property, which others then need to compensate for," said Ilkka Rahnasto, Vice President, Legal & Intellectual Property at Nokia. "Apple is also expected to follow this principle. By refusing to agree appropriate terms for Nokia's intellectual property, Apple is attempting to get a free ride on the back of Nokia's innovation." During the last two decades, Nokia has invested approximately EUR 40 billion in research and development and built one of the wireless industry's strongest and broadest IPR portfolios, with over 10,000 patent families. Nokia is a world leader in the development of GSM technologies and its evolution to UMTS / 3G WCDMA as well as wireless LAN, which is also demonstrated by Nokia's strong patent position in these technologies.