before the Munich District Court of the Finnish network equipment has been victorious in a patent lawsuit against the Chinese smartphone manufacturer. He could now enforce bans on sale, but is likely to be interested in other things.
Last Friday, the Munich District Court ruled, HTC have Nokia’s European patent EP1579613 ( method and apparatus for enabling a mobile station to adapt its revision level based on network protocol revision level ) is violated. Thus, Nokia has decided the fourth German patent dispute with the smartphone manufacturer for himself and could obtain a sales ban on HTC devices.
HoweverInterestingly likely to be for the Finnish company, that the pressure on HTC grows with every court decision. Ultimately, she wants to enforce that HTC as previously Apple in 2011, and BlackBerry 2012 concludes a licensing agreement. From such agreements Nokia is, so far every year around 500 million euros a.
The patent in the current procedure ensures that older mobile devices to work properly in new networks. It is not essential for the mobile radio standards, so that Nokia not to grant a license on FRAND terms (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) is required. HTC may appeal against the decision of the District Court of Appeal. (ck)
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