Apple's first major legal win against Android is no slam dunk

Posted by BernardSwiss on Dec 22, 2011 2:45 AM EDT
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The International Trade Commission handed down a ruling on Monday saying that several of HTC's smartphones infringed on an Apple patent and would be subject to an import ban beginning in April 2012. The case is important for Apple, as it is the first substantive ruling that Android devices definitively infringe on an Apple patent. Despite this, however, the end result of this particular ruling may have little material effect on HTC, Google, or other handset makers—HTC says it plans to remove the offending feature, and there's plenty of time to do so before the ban kicks in.

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