A judge who is linked to the U.s. International Trade Commission has ruled that Apple is in a by HTC brought patentzaak innocent. The company does not infringe on the four patents in the case were called.
The decision must still be adopted by the commission of the ITC. The judgment is in February expected, but deviates rarely from the initial judgment in such matters is given. Was the ITC judge know that HTC’s patents remain valid: sometimes patentzaken mentioned patents declared invalid, so that possible infringement on patents is no longer relevant.
Apple seems to be the winner in the patentenstrijd against HTC. Previously, the ITC already that the Taiwanese smartphonefabrikant, in contrast to Apple, infringes on two patents. However, there is yet another patentzaak that the company from Cupertino by HTC is accused of violating three patents.
Manufacturers of Android phones are plagued by patentzaken. In addition to lawsuits from Apple against Android makers, ask Microsoft royalties from various manufacturers for licenses on patents. Google seems like the tide wanting to turn: the internetgigant wore a number of patents to HTC and bought thousand patents from IBM in the area of mobile technology. In addition, Google has with the recent purchase of Motorola Mobility, a large patentportfolio in his hands.