Monday, December 30, 2013

HTC, cursed the year to the end - MacNN

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information was expected, but its scope has been expanded considerably Matthias Ziggan judge of the court of Munich has indeed decide that all HTC smartphones, including the HTC One , two offenses were non-FRAND patents Nokia on “ a method for the tranfer of information resources .”

Given the nature of these non-essential patents, Nokia now has the discretion to fund the $ 400 million necessary to block the entire mobile HTC in Germany, which of course would be a disaster for the manufacturer Taiwanese.

Of course, HTC can appeal, but the suspension of blocking sales only intervene if the group’s lawyers can convince the judges that they have a good chance of winning in the second instance, which seems far from being won in advance.

For HTC, the blow is all the stronger as representatives of the company had given a statement fire there a few days, indicating that the HTC One, the high-end brand, was not affected by an offense that already another patent Nokia . Alas to no avail because the Finnish took out his heavy artillery to defeat his opponent resources under heavy German fire, but also before the U.S. ITC or else face an English Court of Justice. And in each case, a preliminary decision already been given in favor of Nokia. Not sure which one saber champagne tomorrow night at the premises of HTC.

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