While HTC may have lost a patent case in the U.S. market, things are looking a little more positive in Germany where HTC was granted an injunction against IPCom this week. Since early 2009, the two companies have been locked in legal battle over 3G patents which are held by IPCom. Here’s a little history [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]