According to the German court may IPCom is no longer litigation proceedings against shops that HTC phones to sell. Recently, a German sales ban pronounced, but this was by by the Taiwanese manufacturer are ignored.
Despite the fact that IPCom due to the win of a patentenzaak against HTC one sales ban is allowed to force, remain shops in Germany devices of the Taiwanese manufacturer sell. Therefore, IPCom many individual shops sued, but should be here now according to the German court to stop, so reports the newspaper, Taiwan Economic News. This seems to be the German sales ban for HTC phones no effect. However, it is still possible to take a provisional decision, leaving the legal battle between the two companies was not yet of the table.
In 2009, the judge decided that HTC infringed on a patent from IPCom that the company, which is known as a patent troll, a sales ban could enforce. The Taiwanese manufacturer appealed, but gave up this last week. Possible chose HTC to do this because IPCom in the appeal of two patents with respect where the manufacturer is infringed.
HTC gave all that a sales ban is not an issue, since the umts-technology, which infringement would be made not by the manufacturer is used. This was the reason for IPCom to individual shops to complain, which the company previously had yet uttered even before the end of the year, the sales of HTC devices for tires.