Apple Loses Lawsuit Over Flagship Patents

July 5, 2012

By Joshua – Mobile Bloom

Technology giant Apple has lost the lawsuit pertaining to the patent infringement by the smartphone maker HTC, at the High Court. The lawsuit comprised of 4 patent claims, including the iPhone’s “prize” slide-to-unlock patent and their ground breaking multi-touch system. This case was brought to British soil, where Justice Floyd ruled almost completely in favour of HTC. Intellectual property experts believe that this is likely to have an impact on on going disputes in Germany and the United States. The other patents in the case were about the way the iPhone manages photographs and the patent regarding the use of different character sets in text messaging which dates back to 1994.

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