The short tl;dr: A court finds HTC to be violating a patent held by Nokia, but whether the ruling will change the German marketplace in any way remains to be seen.
and can be read more in detail here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57575065-94/nokia-wins-one-against-htc-in-german-patent-case
Nokia has just won a patent infringment, but in Germany.
The official ruling is: HTC is infringing a Nokia patent related to saving battery life by identifying packets of data that can be reconstructed through the use of an encoded message.
The issue is that there is some debate as to whether or not this is a large victory for Nokia or not. It seems that Nokia actually won't be importing three devices in Germany anyways. Unfortunately the three devices were the only ones that were affected by this ruling. German business is not going to be affected in any way by this, a claim made by Nokia themselves.
However, HTC will plan to appeal the courts decision, and there have been some people who are saying that they believe HTC's statement about the three devices is not completely true.
How do you think this will affect either companies? HTC and Nokia have many more claims to be ruled on, do you think this has any affect on future rulings?
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