British court finds HTC phone infringes Nokia patent

Phoenix Science and technology news Beijing time October 31, according to the Computerworld website reported that a British court in Wednesday ruled that, including the flagship smartphone HTC One including a variety of HTC mobile phone infringement of Nokia's mobile network standard patent. As a defensive tactic, HTC sued Nokia in Britain to try to get the court to declare Nokia's patent illegal. But HTC did not achieve the goal. Richard David Arnold, Judge Richard David Arnold of the patent court at the High Court of England and Wales, ruled in Wednesday that Nokia's patent was legal and HTC violated the patent. HTC will immediately appeal against the ruling, a spokesman for the department said in an e-mail statement. ' The ruling is a major advance in the legal dispute between Nokia and HTC, ' said Mark Durrant, a spokeswoman for Nokia, in an e-mail Mark Durante. Nokia is now seeking to ban the importation and sale of infringing HTC products in the UK and demand compensation from HTC. Nokia has filed a lawsuit against HTC in Germany, Italy, Japan and the US over the patent. Nokia also sued HTC in France and the Netherlands over other patents. Durant said this is the third time this year that the court ruled HTC infringement of Nokia patents, HTC infringement of the number of Nokia patents has reached four. (Compiling/willow wind)