A few months ago, Apple filed a lawsuit against HTC in a London court, accusing it of infringing 4 patents related to touchscreen technologies, plus one patent related to slide to technology. unlock. Today that court decided that HTC does not infringe any of the patents invoked by Apple and of course that the request to ban the sale of HTC terminals in Great Britain was rejected by the respective court.
HTC's devices don't infringe four Apple patents for touchscreen technology and three of those patents are invalid, Judge Christopher Floyd said today... While HTC was pleased with the ruling, "we remain disappointed that Apple continues to favor competition in the courtroom over competition in the marketplace," spokeswoman Andrea Sommer said... In addition to the slide-to-unlock feature, today's ruling covered Apple's patents on tools used to scroll through photographs and change alphabets, and software allowing users to touch the screen in two spots simultaneously.
Although Apple lost in London with these patents, it seems that the same patents would be used in the lawsuits that Apple is going to file against the HTC company in Germany, but the chances of success seem small, considering that they they have already proven to be losers.
