HTC To Be Banned in Germany Due to Patent

HTC has been very successful in launching many new smartphone series
in various countries and Germany is one of the major potential
countries that HTC intends to penetrate into. However, this round of
time it may face some huge challenges especially after the recent
patent violation suit loss to IPCom GMbH.

HTC was accused to have infringed the "100 series" patents owned by
IPCom which was bought from Robert Bosch GmbH since 2006. The UMTS
related patents are believed to have been used in most of the Windows
Mobile smartphones developed by this Taiwanese company. If there is
still no compromise and agreement being made between these two
companies, HTC will have no choice but to stop selling all its UMTS
capable mobile devices in Germany which include the current T-Mobile
G1 and upcoming HTC Magic.

Meanwhile, Google who has been actively collaborating with HTC in
designing Google Android based handsets is said to be affected as well
in the lawsuit. Hopefully this will not stop these giant companies
from expanding their new powerful handsets to other regions.