Amazon sues Nokia, claiming that the networking behemoth has infringed on twelve of the company's cloud patents.

In an effort to ascertain if Nokia engineers independently developed the concepts or whether the company pilfered them from Amazon, the legal battle is probably going to delve into the technical foundations of a number of Nokia products.

Nokia Nuage Networks Virtualized Cloud Services, Nokia CloudBand Infrastructure Software, Nokia Airframe Data Center, Nokia CloudBand, Nokia Container Services, Nokia Cloud Operations Manager, Nokia CloudBand Application Manager, Nokia Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform, and Nokia Nuage Software Defined Network (SDN) are the specific products that are the target of the Amazon-Nokia patent lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday.

An injunction to prevent future direct or indirect infringement of the claimed patents is requested in the filing.

The Nokia cloud offerings lawsuit may also involve the company's customers in this legal dispute, according to Amazon's lawsuit, which claimed that the patent infringement by Nokia was intentionally oblivious to the prospect that its inducing conduct may result in infringement for its customers. 

Given that Nokia sued Amazon for patent infringement in October 2023, it is entirely possible that Nokia coerced Amazon into filing this complaint. 

The fact that Nokia has created and sold both network infrastructure and terminal devices since the company's inception was not mentioned in Amazon's account of the company's recovery.

It then enumerated the twelve pertinent patents and provided justifications for each of the ways in which each of the Nokia products infringed against those patents. 

Numerous essential cloud components are covered by the cited patents. In one of the patents, for instance, methods for giving computer networks logical networking functionality were described as specific technical contributions rather than just the physical realization of abstract concepts. Amazon asked the court for an award of damages sufficient to reimburse it for the patent infringement that has happened, together with pre-judgment interest and fees, in addition to its demand for an injunction to prevent further infringement of the patents.