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Apple wins limited ITC ruling in HTC patent case
The company's logo is seen on the Apple store in Washington October 6, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/Yuri Gripas
(Reuters) - Taiwanese handset maker HTC Corp narrowly lost a patent battle with Apple Inc on Monday, as the International Trade Commission found that HTC had infringed on one of Apple's patents.
The ITC imposed a formal import ban on any HTC phones that infringe on the patent, starting April 19, 2012.
An administrative law judge at the commission had ruled in July that HTC infringed two Apple patents in making its Android smartphones.
But the final ruling from the ITC found that HTC has only infringed one of the two patents.
Apple initially accused HTC of infringing 10 patents but six were dropped from the case. The ITC judge then ruled that HTC infringed two of the remaining four.
(Reporting by Poornima Gupta; Editing by Gary Hill)
(This story was corrected in the first paragraph to change to day to Monday)
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I read that one of the patents covered the practice of making smartphones dial a phone # in a webpage or email by just tapping the number. The same for tapping to import appointments into calendars.
The other one I don’t know.
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