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ITC rules is Apple’s favor, HTC handset ban to go into effect on April 19
The International Trade Commission ruled yesterday that HTC handsets are indeed infrongign on Apple’s patent (#5,946,647) and has imposed a ban on HTC’s infringing handset which goes into effect on April 19, 2012. While the original patent dispute brought forth by Apple names phones like the HTC EVO 4G, HTC DROID Incredible, T-Mobile G2 and…
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Court ruling in Apple’s favor could force HTC to switch touch-sensor supplier
The maxTouch sensors from Atmel used by HTC may soon be replaced with similar products by Synaptics or Cypress Semiconductor. HTC may be forced to change its touch-sensor supplier based on a court ruling later this week. The issue is that Atmel’s sensors use “touch ITO pattern” technology which is very similar to some of…
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ITC sides with HTC in FlashPoint camera patent dispute
The US International Trade Commission issued its final ruling in the FlashPoint patent dispute case, siding with HTC. According to the court documents, the trade commission did not find that any of HTC’s Android or Windows Phone 7 handsets infringe on FlashPoint’s 769 patent. FlashPoint filed its initial dispute against HTC with the ITC back…