Apple Trumps HTC In Court Case

Continuing a long list of battles among smartphone companies, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) won a case against Taiwan’s HTC. The ITC said HTC violated one Apple patent. HTC should have enough time to change the technology involved so that its flow of products will not be interrupted.

Reuters reports that

While the ruling is unlikely to hurt HTC as much as initially feared because it will have time to work around the offending technology and has until April before the ban becomes effective, it offers Apple ammunition to pursue other makers it believes infringe on its technology.

“This is one skirmish in one battle, which is forming a much larger war and each side has got some ammunition left,” said David Wilson, a London-based partner at the intellectual property group with Herbert Smith LLP.

Other key cases in the sector involve Apple IP wars with Samsung and patent claims by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) against Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android OS