Apple has patent dispute HTC achieved a partial success. The International Trade Commission (ITC) has ruled that the Taiwanese mobile phone manufacturer infringed an Apple patent. As a result of HTC in the U.S. now threatens an import ban on some of its products. Together with Google and its partners, it now has up to 19 Period April 2012 to remove the question from the products and functions to find technical workarounds that do not infringe copyright.
HTC’s general counsel Grace Lei announced plans to remove the relevant function “of all of our mobile phones.” There was an insignificant legal protection for user interfaces. The U.S. patent number 5,946,647 is from the year 1999. It describes “a system and method for causing a computer to detect certain actions based on data structures and execute computer”. Pierre Ferragu, senior analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, said the decision (PDF) of the ITC “is absolutely no threat to HTC’s U.S. business dar.”
The judgment is therefore only a partial success because Apple’s complaint filed in March 2010, includes ten patents. Already at a first examination, a judge of the ITC had but found only two violations. Now only one of them remained.
It is nevertheless a blow to HTC, which attempts to deal with Android cell phones to make a name and to secure market share. The Taiwanese were the first Android partner, had sued Apple. They lack a comprehensive patent portfolio, which they could use as a shield against lawsuits.
In September, HTC gave himself a patent lawsuit against Apple. In it resulted in a total of nine rights that originally came from Palm, Motorola and Openwave Systems. Google had it on 1 September transmitted HTC. As a result of patent litigation and the associated difficulties in selling HTC’s share price has fallen sharply in recent months.
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