14 DAY TRIAL // Last week, the UK Court of Appeal granted a stay on the injunction against HTC One mini smartphones in the country, after the UK High Court found the device to be infringing certain Nokia products, and decided to ban its sales in the local market.
HTC was happy with the court’s decision to allow it to continue selling its HTC One mini smartphones in the UK, though Nokia is looking at this from a different perspective.
In its opinion, HTC should not be selling the smartphone until it compensates Nokia for the infringing patents.
Furthermore, the company will continue to pursue legal action against the Taiwanese vendor, so as to validate the initial ruling, which was in its favor, and to lift the stay on the injunction.
“Nokia was pleased that the UK High Court imposed an injunction on certain HTC products which it found in October to infringe a Nokia patent,” Nokia said, according to Foss Patents.
“The UK Court of Appeal has stayed the injunction until a full appeal hearing next year and Nokia welcomes the Court's invitation for the parties to expedite this. It is unfortunate that the stay means that HTC can continue to benefit from its unauthorized and uncompensated use of Nokia innovations.”
“We look forward to the Court of Appeal confirming that the patent is valid and infringed, lifting the stay on the injunction and awarding Nokia financial compensation for HTC's infringement,” the Finnish phone maker also said.
Furthermore, the vendor confirmed that it would sue HTC for infringing this patent in more markets around the world, including France, Germany, and Italy. Nokia also filed a second complaint against HTC at the US International Trade Commission.
This year, HTC has already been found to infringe on various Nokia patents in Germany, the UK, and the US, the handset vendor said.
“Nokia began its actions against HTC in 2012, with the aim of ending HTC's unauthorised use of Nokia's proprietary innovations and has asserted more than 50 patents against HTC in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, UK and US,” Nokia said.