From DailyTech: After being hammered by investors following a bleak quarter in which it posted its first loss, the Taiwanese Android phonemaker received some bad news from a UK Judge. The Hon. Mr. Justice Richard David Arnold, of the Chancery division of the UK High Court [of Justice] in London ruled this week that imports of HTC's 8X Windows Phone and HTC One mini Android phone would be banned.
At the same time he gave HTC a minor victory to go with its major helping of defeat, allowing it to continue to sell its existing UK stock of the devices over the holiday season.
The injunction follows a ruling handed down by Judge Arnold late last month in which he found the phonemaker to have violated veteran phonemaker Nokia Oyj.'s (HEX:NOK1V) European Patent (EP) No. 0998024 which covers "a modular structure for a transmitter and a mobile station".
In a statement published at the end of October Nokia clarifies that the chips it's target are chips that HTC and other Android OEMs bought from Qualcomm, Inc. (QCOM) and Broadcom Corp. (BRCM), two top vendors of smartphone signal processing chipsets. It writes:
The judgment relates to devices using certain chips including (but not limited to) the Qualcomm WTR1605, Qualcomm WTR1605L, Broadcom BCM4329 and BCM4334. In addition, Nokia believes that the Broadcom BCM4330 infringes the patent in a similar way to the BCM4329. Nokia therefore believes that any HTC device that uses any of these chips would also be covered by the judgment.
The chips mentioned are found in the HTC One mini, One V, HTC One X+, Desire X, 8X and 8S.
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