 As
German Handeslblatt reported yesterday, IPCom, a license manager for patents,
filed an injunction claiming HTC needed to pay license fees for the use of UMTS
patents which are used in HTC's Windows Mobile and Android UMTS smartphones.
A German court ruled in favor of IPCcom on February 27th. It confirmed the
violation of the "100 series" patents, IPCom said it bought back in 2006 from
German Robert Bosch GmbH. Because HTC works also closely with Google on
currently available Android smartphones (the HTC T-Mobile G1) and upcoming
(Vodafone HTC Magic) IPCom has also set a separate complaint against Google last
week.
IPCom director Bernhard Frohwitter said in an E-Mail statement that he hope
the two parties would reach an agreement on licensing terms. However, he made
clear that if an agreement cannot be reached, IPCom would force HTC to stop
selling affected products in Germany
Back in 2008, IP-Com had filed the same case against Nokia and sued Nokia for
billions of Euro.
Cheers ~ Arne
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