The U.S. trade agency International Trade Commission ruled that HTC violated two patents held by Nokia. In a third protection law Judge Thomas Pender however noted no violations. The judgment should be confirmed threatens the Taiwanese mobile phone manufacturer an import ban on several of his Android smartphones and tablets.
The infringements concern the Patents 7,415,247 and 6,393,260, which Nokia holds since August 2008 and May 2002. Describe techniques for transmitting and receiving radio signals as well as the attenuating noise. The third protection law, according to Judge Pender HTC does not use without permission, refers to the transfer of data between a computer and a mobile communication network.
Reuters, threatened an import ban on HTC smartphones, the Amaze 4G, Inspire 4G, Sensation 4G, Rezound, and the Jetstream and Flyer tablets. In addition, the Windows Phone Radar 4G affected.
patent blogger Florian Mueller points out that it is not about rights for standard technologies. Nokia’s standard for relevant patents HTC possess a license.
addition, both parties have the opportunity to appeal against the judgment appeal, Miller writes in his blog FOSS patent. Nokia could try and push through the third patent against HTC. HTC, however, will probably challenge the subordinate judge of Pender patent infringements.
“Nokia is pleased that the preliminary judgment of the ITC has confirmed that HTC infringed two of our patents,” said a Nokia spokesman. The rights are the subject of proceedings against HTC, which would be negotiated in London, Dusseldorf and Rome. HTC did not comment on the decision of the ITC.
The Finnish mobile phone manufacturer had filed its ITC complaint in May 2012. Apart from HTC to Nokia’s intellectual property and unauthorized use Blackberry and display manufacturer ViewSonic. In May 2013 it expanded the patent dispute with HTC with a separate lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Southern California on the flagship model HTC One.
[with material from Liam Tung, ZDNet.com]
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