Press Release
1 December 2017
Espoo, Finland - Nokia is pleased that the International
Chamber of Commerce's International Court of Arbitration has ruled
in favor of Nokia in a contract dispute with BlackBerry.
The decision confirms that BlackBerry had failed to make certain
payments to Nokia under a patent license agreement between the
parties.
A significant portion of the amount awarded has already been
recognized by Nokia in its financials for previous periods. Nokia
will follow its existing practices for disclosing patent licensing
related results in its quarterly financial reports.
Nokia continues to believe that BlackBerry's unrelated claims of
patent infringement by Nokia are without merit.
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acquired businesses into our operations and achieve the targeted
business plans and benefits, including targeted benefits,
synergies, cost savings and efficiencies; B) expectations, plans or
benefits related to our strategies and growth management; C)
expectations, plans or benefits related to future performance of
our businesses; D) expectations, plans or benefits related to
changes in organizational and operational structure; E)
expectations regarding market developments, general economic
conditions and structural changes; F) expectations and targets
regarding financial performance, results, operating expenses,
taxes, currency exchange rates, hedging, cost savings and
competitiveness, as well as results of operations including
targeted synergies and those related to market share, prices, net
sales, income and margins; G) expectations, plans or benefits
related to any future collaboration or to business collaboration
agreements or patent license agreements or arbitration awards,
including income to be received under any collaboration or
partnership, agreement or award; H) timing of the deliveries of our
products and services; I) expectations and targets regarding
collaboration and partnering arrangements, joint ventures or the
creation of joint ventures, and the related administrative, legal,
regulatory and other conditions, as well as our expected customer
reach; J) outcome of pending and threatened litigation,
arbitration, disputes, regulatory proceedings or investigations by
authorities; K) expectations regarding restructurings, investments,
capital structure optimization efforts, uses of proceeds from
transactions, acquisitions and divestments and our ability to
achieve the financial and operational targets set in connection
with any such restructurings, investments, capital structure
optimization efforts, divestments and acquisitions; and L)
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"anticipate," "foresee," "sees," "target," "estimate," "designed,"
"aim," "plans," "intends," "focus," "continue," "project,"
"should," "is to," "will" or similar expressions. These statements
are based on management's best assumptions and beliefs in light of
the information currently available to it. Because they involve
risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from
the results that we currently expect. Factors, including risks and
uncertainties that could cause these differences include, but are
not limited to: 1) our ability to execute our strategy, sustain or
improve the operational and financial performance of our business
and correctly identify and successfully pursue business
opportunities or growth; 2) our ability to achieve the anticipated
benefits, synergies, cost savings and efficiencies of acquisitions,
including the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent, and our ability to
implement changes to our organizational and operational structure
efficiently; 3) general economic and market conditions and other
developments in the economies where we operate; 4) competition and
our ability to effectively and profitably compete and invest in new
competitive high-quality products, services, upgrades and
technologies and bring them to market in a timely manner; 5) our
dependence on the development of the industries in which we
operate, including the cyclicality and variability of the
information technology and telecommunications industries; 6) our
global business and exposure to regulatory, political or other
developments in various countries or regions, including emerging
markets and the associated risks in relation to tax matters and
exchange controls, among others; 7) our ability to manage and
improve our financial and operating performance, cost savings,
competitiveness and synergies generally or after the acquisition of
Alcatel-Lucent; 8) our dependence on a limited number of customers
and large multi-year agreements; 9) exchange rate fluctuations, as
well as hedging activities; 10) Nokia Technologies' ability to
protect its IPR and to maintain and establish new sources of patent
licensing income and IPR-related revenues, particularly in the
smartphone market; 11) our ability to successfully realize the
expectations, plans or benefits related to any future collaboration
or business collaboration agreements and patent license agreements
or arbitration awards, including income to be received under any
collaboration, partnership, agreement or arbitration award; 12) our
dependence on IPR technologies, including those that we have
developed and those that are licensed to us, and the risk of
associated IPR-related legal claims, licensing costs and
restrictions on use; 13) our exposure to direct and indirect
regulation, including economic or trade policies, and the
reliability of our governance, internal controls and compliance
processes to prevent regulatory penalties in our business or in our
joint ventures; 14) our ability to identify and remediate material
weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting; 15)
our reliance on third-party solutions for data storage and service
distribution, which expose us to risks relating to security,
regulation and cybersecurity breaches; 16) inefficiencies,
breaches, malfunctions or disruptions of information technology
systems; 17) Nokia Technologies' ability to generate net sales and
profitability through licensing of the Nokia brand, technology
licensing and the development and sales of products and services
for instance in digital health, as well as other business ventures,
which may not materialize as planned; 18) our exposure to various
legislative frameworks and jurisdictions that regulate fraud and
enforce economic trade sanctions and policies, and the possibility
of proceedings or investigations that result in fines, penalties or
sanctions; 19) adverse developments with respect to customer
financing or extended payment terms we provide to customers; 20)
the potential complex tax issues, tax disputes and tax obligations
we may face in various jurisdictions, including the risk of
obligations to pay additional taxes; 21) our actual or anticipated
performance, among other factors, which could reduce our ability to
utilize deferred tax assets; 22) our ability to retain, motivate,
develop and recruit appropriately skilled employees; 23)
disruptions to our manufacturing, service creation, delivery,
logistics and supply chain processes, and the risks related to our
geographically-concentrated production sites; 24) the impact of
litigation, arbitration, agreement-related disputes or product
liability allegations associated with our business; 25) our ability
to optimize our capital structure as planned and re-establish our
investment grade credit rating or otherwise improve our credit
ratings; 26) our ability to achieve targeted benefits from or
successfully achieve the required administrative, legal, regulatory
and other conditions and implement planned transactions, as well as
the liabilities related thereto; 27) our involvement in joint
ventures and jointly-managed companies; 28) the carrying amount of
our goodwill may not be recoverable; 29) uncertainty related to the
amount of dividends and equity return we are able to distribute to
shareholders for each financial period; 30) pension costs, employee
fund-related costs, and healthcare costs; and 31) risks related to
undersea infrastructure, as well as the risk factors specified on
pages 67 to 85 of our 2016 annual report on Form 20-F under
"Operating and financial review and prospects-Risk factors" and in
our other filings or documents furnished with the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission. Other unknown or unpredictable factors or
underlying assumptions subsequently proven to be incorrect could
cause actual results to differ materially from those in the
forward-looking statements. We do not undertake any obligation to
publicly update or revise forward-looking statements, whether as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise, except to
the extent legally required.
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