HTC just can't catch a break these days. The
company has been in rough financial shape for
a while now, despite churning out stellar
products like the HTC One.
One of the company's biggest threats is Nokia,
which coincidentally has one of the biggest
patent portfolios in the mobile space. The
Finish company has won a patent lawsuit
against HTC where Justice Arnold of the
England and Wales High Court has ordered an
injunction against the Tainawese
manufacturer's products, which are in
violation of Nokia's EP0998024 patent on
"modular structure for a transmitter and a
mobile station".
HTC's argument is that the technology is part
of the Qualcomm chips the company uses and
should be covered in a deal between Nokia
and Qualcomm in the US. But to no avail as
the judge has issued the injunction, which has
been delayed until Friday so as to give time
HTC to appeal. If that does not happen Nokia
could file to ban HTC One sales in the UK.
HTC's One mini has already fallen victim to
Nokia and will be banned from selling starting
December 6. HTC has evoked examples such
as Apple, BlackBerry, Google, LG, Samsung
and Sony, which all infringe on said patent,
but that wasn't enough to save its case.
Nokia had achieved a sales ban against the
One smartphone line in the UK before, forcing
HTC to change the radios and microphones
inside the One. Nokia also won against HTC
regarding its wireless patents , battery-saving
patent in Germany, the list goes on.

Nokia! Just to mouthed.