California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has sued Nokia, LG Electronics and chipmakers including STMicroelectronics saying the companies' mobile phones and components infringe on its patents, reports JoongAng Daily. Caltech, in a complaint filed on 24 November in federal court in Los Angeles, lists nine patents pertaining to camera technology that it says Nokia and LG phones and phones made by Pantech, infringe on. The research university, based in Pasadena, California, seeks unspecified damages for willful infringement. Also named in the 24 November complaint were South Korean chipmakers SETi and SiliconFile Technologies and Tokyo-based Toshiba. US spokesman for Geneva-based STMicro, Michael Markowitz said that the company doesn't comment on litigation. John Taylor, a spokesman for Seoul-based LG's US electronics unit, Laurie Armstrong, a US spokeswoman for Espoo, Finland-based Nokia, Pantech Wireless spokeswoman Erin Magee and Toshiba America Electronic Components spokeswoman Rebecca Bueno did not immediately return calls for comment.
