美國國際貿(mào)易委員會(ITC)的判決讓蘋果在與臺灣HTC的官司中獲得險勝。蘋果控告安卓(Android)智能手機(jī)生產(chǎn)商HTC侵犯其專利權(quán)。另外,英國電信也加入到移動專利戰(zhàn)之中,在美國特拉華一家聯(lián)邦地方法院控告谷歌侵犯了其六項(xiàng)專利。
HTC必須在4月19日之前停止侵犯一項(xiàng)利用觸摸電話號碼或日期來撥出電話或者建立日程的專利。觀察家表示,HTC可以繞過這個專利,或者暫時從其手機(jī)中刪除該功能,以避免影響其手機(jī)銷售。
ITC沒有裁定蘋果的其它九項(xiàng)專利受到侵犯。其中一些專利,包括一項(xiàng)關(guān)于信號處理技術(shù)的專利,HTC比較難以繞開。
“這項(xiàng)裁決根本不足以迫使HTC近期內(nèi)退出美國市場,”Florian Mueller表示,“蘋果將來需要提高命中率,而且必須維護(hù)影響力比這個大得多的專利權(quán)?!?Florian Mueller經(jīng)營的一個網(wǎng)站密切追蹤移動專利戰(zhàn)情況。
蘋果等主要智能手機(jī)廠商、安卓伙伴廠商和微軟之間有將近100起訴訟案,ITC的這個案件只是其中之一。Mueller表示,這些案件的影響可能需要一兩年才能看出眉目。
同時,英國電信也加入戰(zhàn)團(tuán)。它控告谷歌在Android等軟件中侵犯了它的六項(xiàng)專利。被侵權(quán)的專利涉及創(chuàng)建網(wǎng)絡(luò)服務(wù)和信息導(dǎo)航等技術(shù)。
編譯:Luffy Liu
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參考英文原文:Apple wins narrow victory against HTC,by Rick Merritt
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Apple wins narrow victory against HTC
Rick Merritt
SAN JOSE, Calif. – The U.S. International Trade Commission handed Apple a narrow victory in its suit alleging the Android smartphones of Taiwan's HTC violates Apple's patents. Separately, British Telecom joined the mobile patent wars, alleging in a suit in U.S. District Court in Delaware that Google violates six of its patents.
HTC has until April 19 to stop violating a patent on making a phone call or a calendar entry by tapping on a phone number or date. Observers said HTC can work around the patent or temporarily eliminate the feature from its phones to avoid disruption of its sales.
The ITC did not find infringement on any of the other nine patents in the Apple case. Some of those patents, including one on signal processing techniques, would have been harder for HTC to work around.
"This ruling falls far short of anything [that] would force HTC out of the U.S. market in the near term," said Florian Mueller, who runs a Web site that closely follows the mobile patent wars. "Apple will need a higher hit rate in the future, and it will have to enforce patents that are greatly more impactful than this one," Mueller wrote.
The ITC case is one of nearly 100 between top smartphone players such as Apple, Android partners and Microsoft. It could take a year or two before the impact of the cases becomes clear, said Mueller in an interview for an EE Times-Confidential analysis.
Meanwhile, British Telecom joined the fray. It charged Google violated six patents in its Android and other software. The patents cite ways to create networked services and navigate information on them.
責(zé)編:Quentin