Last evening, a US federal agency made the decision to forbid the import of certain HTC smartphones, but starting with the date of April 19, 2012. The victory of those from Apple comes a year after the filing of the complaint with the federal agency ITC, but of course it is not final, those from HTC being determined to attack. In practice, we are not even talking about a victory because the decision would come into force on April 19, 2012, it affects not all HTC smartphones, and until then there is a good chance that HTC will succeed in canceling it.
A system and method causes a computer to detect and perform actions on structures identified in computer data. The system provides an analyzer server, an application program interface, a user interface and an action processor. The analyzer server receives from an application running concurrently data having recognizable structures, uses a pattern analysis unit, such as a parser or fast string search function, to detect structures in the data, and links relevant actions to the detected structures. The application program interface communicates with the application running concurrently, and transmits relevant information to the user interface. Thus, the user interface can present and enable selection of the detected structures, and upon selection of a detected structure, present the linked candidate actions. Upon selection of an action, the action processor performs the action on the detected structure.
Those from HTC have also announced that they will remove from the UI of their own smartphones the technologies for which it was decided that they violate Apple's patents, so it is extremely possible that a ban on imports will not take place. Apple still manages to protect a technology, forces HTC to remove them from their own terminals and will probably try to do the same with other manufacturers.
We are gratified that the Commission affirmed the judge's initial determination on the '721 and '983 patents, and reversed its decision on the '263 patent and partially on the '647 patent. We are very pleased with the determination and we respect it. However, the '647 patent is a small UI experience and HTC will completely remove it from all of our phones soon.
