HTC Smartphone ban in US will be reviewed

The ban on the sale of HTC’s Android-based Smart phones in US will be reviewed by a US trade agency as the company is said to have infringed two Apple Inc patents. On July 15, an ITC judge found that HTC’s Android-based smart phones had breached two Apple patent and while no violation was found for two others. Now a six-member commission will take care of the breach and review infringement and validity on all four patents and whether a correct interpretation was made on terms within three of the patents, according to a notice on the ITC’s website.

According to the allegation of the king of smart phone makers, Apple, Taiwan-based HTC for “”stealing”" the technology, that Apple uses in its iPhone and iPad. According to HTC which is Asia’s number one smart phone maker, the company is not afraid of the outcome as there are there are “”alternate solutions in place”" to work around the patents. The two patents of HTC are accused of infringing the transmission of several types of statistics plus an arrangement that can classify phone numbers in an email just like a user dial or store up a number. The rest of two patents that the judge found infringed recount to object-oriented programming, a way of writing and executing software.

However, a spokesperson of Cupertino, California-based Apple, Kristin Huguet declined to comment, but  Adam Emery, an HTC spokesman said in an emailed message that, “The two patents HTC was found to have infringed cover transmission of HTC is pleased with the decision to review the judge’s finding and we are confident in our case”".

ITC, a quasi-judicial agency in Washington can obstruct the import of HTC Smart phones in the US as according to their policy any product, which is found to violate US patents, is barred in the country. Apple has demanded the ITC to review the patents which were found not to be infringed as well as the two that were fringed.

HTC said that, “”The exclusion of HTC accused devices from the US market would not only eliminate the most popular brand of smart phones using Android, the fastest-growing mobile operating system, but would also impact the public health, safety, and welfare concerns of individual US consumers”".