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ITC ALJ Sees Some Patent Violations for Mobile Devices, Not Others

Certain models of HTC smartphones and tablets violate portions of two Nokia U.S. patents (Nos. 6,393,260 and 7,415,247), said International Trade Commission Administrative Law Judge Thomas Pender in a partial notice of initial determination (here). A complete public version of…

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the initial determination will be released “when all the parties have submitted their redactions and I have had an opportunity to review the redactions,” Pender said. In his notice, Pender found HTC not to have violated a third U.S. patent (5,884,190) held by Nokia and Intellisync, the supplier of data synchronization software for mobile devices that Nokia acquired in 2006. HTC representatives didn’t immediately comment.