With a press release of November 22, 2009 Nokia has confirmed the filing of a lawsuit against Apple for the infringement of 10 patents on technologies related to voice encoding, wireless communications and data encryption. Nokia claims that the Apple’s flagship product, the iPhone, presents, since 2007, features covered by patents. The particularity of this case lies on the fact that these patents have been adopted during the approval of standards for GSM, UMTS and WLAN. According to Nokia’s position, Apple shoud have had concluded a license agreement with Nokia to comply with these standards. The relationship between IP Standard and patents is one of the most controversial, since the decision on the technical requirements of a new standard must reflect a delicate balance between: - firstly, the collective interest to have a few common and widely used technologies in order to lower the R&D costs, promoting the innovation and the interoperability between devices; - secondly, the individual interest of the patent owner (whose technical solution has been inserted among the technical specifications of the standard) to commercially exploit his invention.