Nokia has taken Apple to court

Nokia Finland’s says Apple has been using their technologies on without paying for the services.

There is an enormous irony at the heart of intellectual property. GSM and its progenitors have brought new levels of complexity and confusion to what is intended to be a mutually advantageous system of law. By giving to ideas some of the legal protection that is given to physical things, society recognizes that inventiveness deserves reward, and rewards require ownership. At the same time, law is constructed so secrecy is not required, recognizing that ideas have most worth when they are shared. But when the area of innovation is a mature, complex and hugely interconnected set of ideas, the power struggles can be huge.