Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Apple wins phone patents victory over HTC

United States

Agency imposes ban on import of phones that infringed the patent, but the point to prevent the failure HTC

Apple

won a narrow victory over Taiwan's HTC in battle patents smartphones after the International Trade Commission found HTC infringes a patent from Apple.

U.S. trade agency imposed the import ban on phones HTC official Monday that infringe patents, April 19, 2012.

experts say, however, that the decision of the ITC would not hurt the phone giant of Asia, because the decision covered only patent that HTC have time to work on any . The company announced Monday its intention to eliminate technology-related patents - called "little experience of user interface" - from their phones

The patent in question refers to a technology that helps users click on telephone numbers and other data in a document, such as email, to mark either directly or click on the data view more information.

HTC

said he was "convinced" that the judge set aside some of the previous decisions of the Administrative Law Judge, who ruled in July that HTC infringement of two patents in the manufacture of Apple its Android smartphone.


"This is a limited victory for several reasons," said Peter Toren, a litigator and intellectual property lawyer partner at Shulman Rogers, adding that the decision did not prevent the import of HTC both phones as you want until April.

"It gives a lot of time to implement a versatile design HTC, which I understand are already working," he said. "The order is, in fact, come into force in April, but no practical impact will be felt for several months."
Smartphone technology has generated a lot of patent litigation. Apple filed a lawsuit against Samsung, which also uses Android software. Apple recently settled a case against Nokia.


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