In response to a lawsuit filed by Nokia alleging infringement on 10 patents related to wireless standards and technologies, Apple has countersued based on 13 patents of its own. In a short, acerbic press release, Apple General Counsel Bruce Sewell smacked Nokia down, stating that “other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours.” That sounds strikingly similar to Nokia VP of Legal & Intellectual Property Ilkka Rahnasto, who said back in October that Apple was “attempting to get a free ride on the back of Nokia’s innovation.” Nokia’s lawsuit related to GSM, UMTS, and wireless LAN standards for “wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption.” Apple’s countersuit ( PDF ) covers 13 patents on a variety of technical and eye-glazing minutia, from “real-time signal processing system for serially transmitted data” to “boot framework architecture for dynamic staged initial program load.” More obviously related to the iPhone, there are patents relating to the graphical user interface and touch-screen display, not that it matters which patents are named. Normally, companies like Apple and Nokia protect themselves from patent lawsuits in the same way nuclear powers stockpile atomic bombs, the principle being mutually assured destruction through litigation

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