To: pyslent who wrote (13842 ) 12/19/2011 5:51:11 PM From: sylvester80 Read Replies (2) | Respond to BREAKING...Apple LOSES 9 out of 10 patents asserted (and LOST the most important patent that could have had an impact Android-wide) against HTC to ban HTC products... HTC to continue selling smartphones in US and will work around the 1 patent or just overturn the patent (I predict the later will happen)... for HTC it is business as usual... LMFAO... too funny...What Apple has won is a formal import ban scheduled to commence on April 19, 2012, but relating only to HTC Android phones implementing one of two claims of a "data tapping patent" : a patent on an invention that marks up phone numbers and other types of formatted data in an unstructured document, such as an email, in order to enable users to bring up other programs (such as a dialer app) that process such data. The import ban won't relate to HTC Android products that don't implement that feature, or that implement it in ways not covered by those patent claims. If Google can implement this popular feature, which users of modern-day smartphones really expect, without infringing on the two patent claims found infringed, this import ban won't have any effect whatsoever. Either way, this ruling falls far short of anything would force HTC out of the U.S. market in the near term. Also, out of ten patents originally asserted, Apple finally prevailed on only one. Apple will need a higher "hit rate" in the future, and it will have to enforce patents that are greatly more impactful than this one.A much broader and potentially more impactful patent on realtime signal processing was not deemed infringed. That one could have had much more impact on HTC and, more generally, Android than the data tapping patent. fosspatents.blogspot.com
