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Dec 13, 2011

Apple and HTC patent litigation today will meet first final judgment

Today, the United States international trade commission to apple sued HTC will be operating system a patent infringement case a judgment, this will be the apple camp first two of the ultimate decision. The personage inside course of study thinks, if apple wins, will result in the entire global cell phone manufacturers have great influence on the camp.
Apple for the HTC lawsuit in the book, says the HTC andros (Android) mobile phone violated the company's four patents. HTC and denied this.
China yesterday about HTC people to our reporter says it can't comment on the influence of the HTC lawsuit, win or lose.
HTC: there are still performance decline, stocks tumbled problem
Once the judge apple wins, this will also be apple and HTC between "struggle", HTC two weeks the second defeat.

The personage inside course of study thinks, the current downturn shares tumbled, HTC performance is more troubling problem of HTC.
Just, according to figures released in October this year income HTC fell to their lowest level in 14 months-$30.942 billion new Taiwan dollars ($1 billion), annulus comparing dropped 30% year-on-year declined 20%. At the same time, HTC has arrived at the recent share price on Friday the lowest point of $403 nt, and April this year the highest 1200 multivariate than nt $, fell more than 65%.
Apple or can get big patent fees down opponents
Yang qun argues that, once the two camps manufacturers was sentenced to infringement, the companies will want to sell their own mobile phone brand, it may have to pay high patent fees to apple. And apple company had also emphasize the lawsuit and not at all the competitors smart phones, only for those without permission to use its patent smartphone.
Because at present already have two camps mobile phone manufacturer to Microsoft company pay patent fees precedent, Yang qun think, once a patent litigation success, apple will have another "ShengCaiZhiDao".
The analysis:
The two camps or relationship fate
The senior people Yang qun think, is the American market HTC share biggest smartphone brand, once the ruling banned export to the United States HTC, HTC to influence. The more influence is the two camps.
According to know, in the last two years, apple and samsung, the two camps HTC and MOTOROLA launched patent litigation between multiple. Have the distributors think these patent litigation is apple to the essence of the market down two camps behavior, if once the final judgment HTC ruling infringement,apple infringement is lasting the other cell phone manufacturers of andros system will have to face the same problems.
Market research firm Gartner last month's data shows, because consumers are buying two mobile phone in the third quarter sales of all smart phones, the two camps in smart phones in the mobile phone sales share to 52.5%, more than the same period of growth more than 1 times.

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