Because of Patent Infringement, HTC Suspended Its Selling of Cell Phones in UK

The BBC reported that HTC had suspended the sale of mobile phones in the UK due to a patent lawsuit. Currently, the product pages of HTC's UK official website have all been marked as "out of stock". However, users can still buy HTC phones at Amazon UK, and other countries outside the UK are not affected.

As early as 2010, HTC, Nokia and other mobile phone manufacturers at that time were sued by a German patent company named IPCom. Since then, IPCom and HTC have been entangled many times. The lawsuit mentioned in the report is another intellectual property dispute between HTC and IPCom, involving a wireless technology used in cars.

IPCom sued HTC that HTC did not use the alternative plan to circumvent the patent. Tests showed that HTC was still infringing and "ignoring and disrespecting British law".

HTC said: "HTC attaches great importance to intellectual property rights, and we are actively investigating third-party infringement lawsuits against a single mobile phone model."

HTC said: "HTC attaches great importance to intellectual property rights, and we are actively investigating third-party infringement lawsuits against a single mobile phone model."

The report mentioned, operators such as Carphone Warehouse, O2 and EE have stopped selling HTC phones.

September 8, 2019

Source: World Wide Web

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