[新聞] HTC贏德國另一官司但仍有被完全禁售可能已回收
1.原文連結:
http://slumz.boxden.com/f244/htc-finally-wins-lawsuit-still-has-injunction-ger
many-ban-all-devices-2024060/
2.內容:
HTC Finally Wins A Lawsuit, Still Has Injunction In Germany To Ban All
Devices
topic by Jago - Yesterday, 01:33 PM - Boxden > BX Tech
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This morning Judge Dr. Matthias Zigann, who presides over the 7th Civil
Chamber of the Munich I Regional Court, announced the dismissal of a Nokia v.
HTC patent infringement lawsuit over EP0804046 on a "method and apparatus for
updating the software of a mobile terminal using the air interface". The
patent-in-suit does not cover all over-the-air updates but a particular way
of enabling mobile phone users to accept calls while downloading an update.
The court concluded, as Judge Dr. Zigann explained in open court today, that
HTC's devices don't meet the claim limitations of a "first memory" and a
"second memory", rejecting Nokia's proposed claim construction that would
have had scope for different areas of the same memory, organized by software
means, to constitute different "memories" within the meaning of the patent.
Since Nokia started its patent enforcement against HTC in April 2012, well
over a dozen German cases have come to judgment. Nokia has also won an
injunction in the UK (which was stayed pending an appeal), and a preliminary
Nokia win at the ITC is under review. Patent litigation is a low-scoring
game, and HTC has already been able to fend off many Nokia lawsuits. But
Nokia has scored multiple wins, three of them already in Germany. On the
Friday before Christmas, a different division of the Munich court had sided
with Nokia on a USB-related patent, and on the eve of New Year's Eve, Judge
Dr. Zigann's panel entered an injunction over a patent on certain kinds of
negotiated data transfer over NFC and Bluetooth connections (which Nokia can
enforce if it posts a bond or gives security amounting to 400 million euros).
Nokia's German patent a##ertions against HTC were brought by different
lawyers from two firms. But all three German Nokia wins were achieved by the
same lead counsel: Christian Harmsen, the head of Bird & Bird's German IP
practice. His firm, but not Mr. Harmsen personally, was involved with the
case adjudged today.
When Nokia sued HTC in May 2012, I really wouldn't have thought that this
dispute was still going to be in full swing in early 2014. RIM (now
BlackBerry), a company Nokia sued at the same time, settled after a few
months, though the circumstances surrounding that settlement (an arbitration
proceeding over a contract that appeared rather disadvantageous for RIM) were
admittedly unique. Nokia also sued ViewSonic at the same time, but it has put
much less effort behind the dispute with ViewSonic than the one with HTC,
which spans seven countries and three continents and involves more than 50
different patents.
Since the original filings, Nokia has repeatedly stepped up the pressure
through additional complaints, not only in new jurisdictions but also in
Germany. Also, Nokia's Dusseldorf filings haven't come to judgment yet, but
will soon. And over the course of this year, various of Nokia's
patents-in-suit will come to judgment at the Federal Patent Court of Germany,
where HTC (in some cases in conjunction with Google, which is concerned about
Nokia's infringement allegations against Android and related Google
technologies) brought nullity (invalidation) complaints.
[Update]
Nokia has issued the following statement:
"Nokia respectfully disagrees with the judgment of the Regional Court in
Munich, Germany, which today ruled that HTC products do not infringe Nokia’s
patent EP 0 804 046. Nokia is considering an appeal of this decision.
However, this does not change the fact that the same court found in December
2013 that two other Nokia patents were infringed by HTC products, enabling
Nokia to enforce injunctions against the import and sale of all infringing
HTC products in Germany, as well as to obtain damages for past infringement.
Nokia began its actions against HTC in 2012, with the aim of ending HTC's
unauthorised use of Nokia's proprietary innovations and has a##erted more
than 50 patents against HTC. Since then, Nokia believes it has demonstrated
beyond doubt the extent to which HTC has been free riding on Nokia
technologies, with HTC found to infringe six Nokia patents in venues
including the Regional Courts in Mannheim and Munich, Germany, the UK High
Court and the US International Trade Commission. HTC's first New Year's
resolution for 2014 should be to stop this free riding and compete fairly in
the market."
3.心得/評論(必需填寫):
1.nokia已在德國贏得3項官司 仍有權禁止HTC所有產品銷往德國
2.nokia雖也有告RIM及Viewsonic 但現已集中火力於HTC
3.之後英國 德國 美國ITC的終判或上訴結果出爐
若贏 -> 對營運沒有幫助
若輸 -> 對營運雪上加霜
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