Apple’s patent win against HTC

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Florian Mueller:

So what Apple has won is a formal import ban scheduled to commence on April 19, 2012, but relating only to HTC Android phones implementing one of two claims of a “data tapping patent”: a patent on an invention that marks up phone numbers and other types of formatted data in an unstructured document, such as an email, in order to enable users to bring up other programs (such as a dialer app) that process such data.

Florian is the best at explaining the ramifications of patent wins and loses.


  • http://mangochut.net/ mangochutney

    This is interesting news, but I agree with Müller that this doesn’t really hamper HTC as it’s merely a software feature, at least as I understand it.

    It’d have stronger ramifications should Google and other Android device makers not figure out a way to implement this feature without infringing on the patent.
    Then Apple would be able to either “cripple” Android devices in general, regarding this feature; or they’d get a potential new technology to licence to other manufacturers.