Nokia Corp. will fight a patent-infringement complaint brought by a New Zealand company over technology used in nearly all of the Espoo, Finland-based manufacturer's mobile phones. "We will actively defend the rights of Nokia," a company spokeswoman said today. Michael S. Sutton Ltd. filed a complaint against Nokia in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, accusing the company of infringing on technology that prepares message packets for data transmission, according to documents filed with the court Monday. The company claims that its technology is used in numerous messaging applications on Nokia phones, including Short Messaging Service, Multimedia Messaging Service and Nokia's implementation of the Wireless Application Protocol. Sutton had previously filed the complaint against Nokia but then voluntarily dismissed it, according to the Nokia spokeswoman.

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