If Nokia has innovated in the mobile communication area, why would it be wrong for them to use their intellectual property rights. A separate question is if in

If Nokia has innovated in the mobile communication area, why would it be wrong for them to use their intellectual property rights. A separate question is if intellectual property is a good idea at all. But that is beyond the question at hand. Patent trolls are just a bad idea, but in this case Nokia may have created a foundation that the Apple is building upon. Companies pay for licensing technology all the time. USB, Firewire, Bluetooth, ...