Nokia has transferred MeeGo patents to Jolla (UPD)

The topic is based on the SlashGear site information, listed below as [Source]. The SlashGear reviewers contacted Nokia and received a denial , and thus the current state of affairs indicated in the title is not true. The topic will remain published due to the large number of people who have left comments and rated it positively. I apologize for the situation.

A few days ago, it became known that a number of former Nokia employees had founded a new startup Jolla to develop, support and launch the MeeGo mobile platform. At the time of the start-up announcement, it was mentioned that Jolla is not affiliated with Nokia and officially will not support either N9 or N950.
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As it turned out, the Finnish company did not want to stay away from the development of its former product. Jolla employees received from their former employer - the head of the startup is Marc Dillon, who has worked at Nokia for 11 years, who was directly involved in MeeGo since January 2006 - not only the financing stage, but also a number of patents for various technologies in MeeGo from the portfolio of the Finnish vendor.

Co-founder Jolla Jussi Hurmola (Jussi Hurmola) spoke directly and honestly: " I would like to say Nokia thank you ."

What kind of patents were transferred is not specified. According to the cautious plans voiced by the head of Jolla, the first results of the work will be presented to the public at the end of 2012.

It is also interesting to note the following fact. Although it was mentioned above that Jolla and Nokia are not connected in any way, it turns out that Jolla is one of the implementations of the Bridge project created by Nokia to help former employees of the company not to be at a crossroads, but to get involved in their new high-tech business. Nokia offers opportunities for training and financing new projects, personally supports some of the participants and provides the company's patent portfolios for developing former Nokia projects.

UPD: An incomprehensible situation arose - SlashGear reviewers contacted Nokia, where they were asked to confirm the news regarding the transfer of patents. Nokia has denied this fact: "It seems to me that the source is doubtful. Situation article from a Finnish source , which was referred to by journalists SlashGear.

If you help Google Translate try to understand the Finnish source, then you can find the phrase:

- The one who created his own Nokia bridge project as part of the incubator. We then put forward our strategy, and it received approval from Nokia, he said. [ meaning Jolla co-founder's words about his company ]

Nokia also split the company's patents go off so that they can create a new business on them [ ??? ].

[ Source ]