Law360, New York (December 13, 2012, 3:16 PM ET) -- A

Delaware federal jury ruled Thursday that Apple Inc

(/companies/apple-inc).'s iPhone infringes three patents

covering call handling and camera technology that are

held by a company formed by subsidiaries of Sony Corp

(/companies/sony-corporation). of America, Nokia Corp

(/companies/nokia-corporation). and patent-holding

company MPEG LA (/companies/mpeg-la)LLC.

Following a nine-day trial in the District of Delaware, the

jury ruled that Apple directly infringed three patents owned

by MobileMedia Ideas LLC and rejected Apple's claim that

they were invalid as obvious or anticipated. Damages will

be determined in a separate phase of the case.

The jury found that Apple's iPhone 3G, 3GS and 4

infringed the patents. Two of the three patents-in-suit

cover call-handling technology, including rejecting

incoming calls, while the the third covers a personal

communications device including a camera.

"We're pleased the court found infringement on all three

patents and we think it's justified," a MobileMedia

spokesman said Thursday.

An representative of Apple could not immediately be

reached for comment on the verdict Thursday.

MobileMedia also has patent suits pending against

Research In Motion Ltd (/companies/research-in-motionlimited).

in the Northern District of Texas and HTC Corp.

in the Eastern District of Texas. Those suits and the suit

against Apple were all filed in April 2010.

Earlier this year, Apple moved to dismiss the suit, arguing

that MobileMedia lacked sufficient rights to sue for

infringement or that it could not sue without bringing in

Sony and Nokia as parties.

In August, U.S. District Judge Sue L. Robinson denied the

motion to dismiss, ruling that while the parent companies

have retained some rights of the patents-in-suit, their

rights were not "substantial" as opposed to the rights held

by MobileMedia.

MobileMedia was created pursuant to a formation and

framework agreement set up by three subsidiaries of

Sony, Nokia and MPEG: Tagivan LLC, Nokia Capital Inc.

and SCA IPLA Holdings Inc. MPEG holds a 50.2 percent

share, while Nokia Capital and SCA each hold 24.9

percent shares.

According to its website, MobileMedia owns more than

300 patents worldwide that are important to mobile

devices and cover innovations like call handling, speed

dial, and still and video processing.

The patents-in-suit are U.S. Patent Numbers 6,070,068,

issued in 2000 and titled "Communication terminal device

and method for controlling a connecting state of a call into

a desired connection state upon a predetermined

operation by a user"; 6,253,075, issued in 2001 and titled

"Method and apparatus for incoming call rejection"; and 6,427,078, issued in 2002 and titled "Device for personal communications, data collection and data processing, and a circuit card."

Apple is represented by Tara D. Elliott, Ruffin B. Cordell and Frank E. Scherkenbach of Fish & Richardson PC (/firms/fish-richardson), Richard K. Herrmann and Mary M. Matterer of Morris James LLP (/firms/morris-james), and George A. Riley and Luann L. Simmons of O'Melveny & Myers LLP (/firms/o-melveny-myers).

MobileMedia is represented by Steven M. Bauer, Justin J. Daniels, Safraz W. Ishmael, Kenneth Rubenstein, Anthony C. Coles and Alan Federbush of Proskauer Rose LLP (/firms/proskauer-rose), and Jack B. Blumenfeld, Rodger D. Smith II and Jeremy A. Tigan of Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP (/firms/morris-nichols).

   Congrats.  Hope Safraz shares some of the dough with us!   

Congrats to Safraz, he was actually a lawyer on the case. Unlike many of the "heroes" on this forum whose sole accomplishment is their big mouth.  

You are an idiot for making such a statement in a thread like this.

Congrats to Saffraz.

De PPP need to get rid of..... 

all dem PNC Dutty Dogs, thiefmen and killers like.....

Lamumba, Nascimento, Hamilton, Taps, Kwame, McClean, Gouvia.

And replace them with genuine and real Honest Guyanese like Safraz who can quickly clean up the Crime, Corruption and Narco Mess.

Could this guy go to Guyana and fight against the Jagdeo cabal and the corruption/narco ? If not stop boasting about what a great lawyer you are.

Better yet. We should clone him and send him to Guyana to fight PPP corruption and prosecute the PPP pirates for stealing intellectual properties.

Saf will make a good AG. Congrats.

Does the Chief claim to knowing or being related to Safraz? 

Well done Safraz.  As a small time share holder of Nokia I thank you.

Nonsense, you fools would immediately label him a crook and claim that he is Jagdeo best friend and a thief and fraud. ahahahah

Gurdtrude, how come you are not Jagdeo's best friend? Why is he distancing himself from you? You BO is one answer.