Nokia wins sales ban on some HTC phones in Germany

Nokia has won a patent injunction against Taiwanese mobile manufacturer HTC in Germany in relation to a power saving technology. The injunction, handed down by Judge Dr. Holger Kircher in the Mannheim Regional Court, was a result of a finding that HTC infringed Nokia’s patent number EP0673175. The concerned patent is for “reduction of power consumption in the mobile station".FOSS Patents reports that HTC’s legal team was unable to deny Nokia’s claims that the company had infringed on the patent with devices that use a Qualcomm baseband chip. The ruling indicates that Nokia has the right to force HTC to license the patent. However, HTC and Qualcomm do have the option of deactivating the power saving technique, which would severely affect the battery life on the handsets that use this technology.

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