As I have discussed in my previous post, HTC was also sued by Apple last year, but fought back by countersuing them. After a series of lawsuits, they came to an agreement, which proposed that HTC was responsible to pay $8 to Apple for each smartphone sold. Thus, even though HTC does not have the strongest patent portfolio like this article mentions, this company is not an easy company to get by; if a battle is brought on, they will fight back.
One of the patents in discussion is the EP2073096, which is about conserving mobile devices' batteries. HTC asserts that this Nokia patent on reducing power consumption is standard essential. If this is the case, it would enable HTC to countersue Nokia over SEPs (standard essential patents).
However, after researching further on this topic, I found out that Blackberry and ViewSonic were also sued by Nokia for the same reasons HTC. It turns out that Blackberry has already settled some of the claims, including this patent in question. The result was that Blackberry would have to start paying royalties to Nokia.
Therefore, I think it would be challenging for HTC to win this battle; especially the lawsuit involving the EP2073096. However, since HTC has filed numerous cases in Germany, it has the potential to win some of the cases, like it did with Apple.
http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/02/htc-hits-back-at-nokia-with-german.html
http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/htc-likely-to-settle-power-optimisation-patent-case-against-nokia-106603
for some people, when they say nokia they will think of htc, maybe it's because of the design of their phone models which are very identical same as for samsung
ReplyDeleteInterestingly to see we use the same picture for the same issue. I do expect to see HTC win this lawsuit since Germany patent law seems different than others.
ReplyDeleteHTC def has the potential to win some of the cases – it has filed so many in different points in time
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