Brutta storia per HTC che proprio ieri si è vista tirare le orecchie da Nokia che l’accusa di aver usato un suo brevetto per il microfono di HTC One
HTC infatti per realizzare i microfoni del ONE ,a doppia membrana, stessi microfoni impiegati nel Lumia 720, come potete vedere nell’immagine.
Nokia sostiene infatti che codesti microfoni siano stati inventati e realizzati solo per Nokia.
La colpa cade su ST Microelectronics (l’azienda che produce i chip) che avrebbe violato un accordo di non divulgazione.
Ecco quanto detto da HTC:
HTC è rammaricata da questa decisione. Stiamo valutando se avrà un impatto sui nostri affari ed esploreremo soluzioni alternative immediatamente.
E la denuncia fatta da Nokia
The Amsterdam District Court has today granted Nokia’s request for a preliminary injunction against the supply to HTC of microphone components invented by and manufactured exclusively for Nokia.
Nokia filed this action after it discovered these components in the HTC One; HTC has no license or authorization from Nokia to use these microphones or the Nokia technologies from which they have been developed.
In its marketing materials, HTC claims that its HDR microphone is a key feature for the HTC One, but it is Nokia technology, developed exclusively for use in Nokia products.
This is one of the latest in a number of cases brought by Nokia to end HTC’s unauthorized use of Nokia’s inventions. More than 40 Nokia patents have been asserted against HTC in Germany, the US and the UK. An injunction against HTC devices in Germany, which were found on March 19 to infringe Nokia’s patent EP 0 673 175, is now in effect. The latest case, on Nokia patent EP 1 579 613 B1 was filed in Mannheim, Germany on April 16.
Once again, Nokia calls on HTC to compete using its own innovations and to stop copying from Nokia.
Vedremo come si evolverà la situazione!