Nokia continues to patent trolling - HTC again defeated in court

Since 2012, the company launched last Nokia patent war with HTC due to unauthorized use of innovative technologies, which supposedly has more than 50 violations of the Taiwanese. 

This is the fourth lawsuit was recently in Germany, this time in the city of Mannheim (recall here the Finns have already won one court in March last year, and in December, two more - in Munich). 

Despite the licensing agreement between Nokia and HTC and covering essential patents, the Finnish company has found another loophole through which illegally used its technology so again won the case in a German court. 

Another patent lawsuit touched Nokia EP1579613, which implies adaptation signal base station of the mobile operator to the protocol of the cellular device. In other words, it helps the new devices operate in networks with outdated technology. The Finnish manufacturer was outraged using it in the NTS, given the expected "fair competition", which had to call Taiwanese previous processes. 

Mannheim court decision banned the import and sale of all HTC devices violate the law in Germany, and also urged Taiwanese to pay damages for past violations, the amount of which will be determined later in a separate paperwork. 

However, the aforementioned decision in force and not yet due NTS appeal that clearly unhappy with the outcome of this process and do not intend to submit to him. Thus, the final trial postponed until consideration that will give a temporary advantage to finding a solution to the NTS. 

Will the Taiwanese people for the sake of the German market for the next contract with Nokia or try to defend their case in court - it will be available very soon. But when you consider that most lawsuits in Germany, UK, Japan and the United States lost the NTS, the first option should be considered a very viable. 

NTS themselves, commenting on this situation to their shareholders, reported that they intend to deal with import restrictions and sales in Germany and explore their products in order to eliminate any violations, which, however, can not be detected at all.