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Alihassan Mahdi
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It seems the patent fight between Nokia and HTC hasn’t ended yet. Nokia once again won another German patent lawsuit filed against HTC. A German court ruled that HTC violated Nokia’s patent EP 1578613 B1 related to a “method and apparatus for enabling a mobile station to adapt its revision level based on network protocol revision level.” The patent relates to how newer devices are compatible with older technology networks. HTC has already licensed Nokia’s Standard-Essential Patents (SEPs) but this patent is not a Standard-Essential Patent.
The court found HTC infringing on this Nokia patent and ordered an injunction to prevent the import and sale of all HTC devices in Germany that violate the patent. HTC will also have to pay for damages, which will be determined in a separate proceeding.
This is the fourth time that Nokia has won a German Patent lawsuit against HTC. The first patent lawsuit took place in Mannheim in March 2013 which was related to power-saving technology, the 2nd and 3rd patent lawsuit took place in Germany in December 2013, one of which was a USB-related patent and and the other was related to connecting two HTC devices directly over Bluetooth or NFC.
Source: FOSS Patents
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