“The ITC ruling on Apple’s first complaint against HTC (filed in March 2010) was scheduled for tomorrow (Tuesday, December 6, 2011),” Florian Mueller reports for FOSS Patents. “Today the ITC published this official notice, according to which the target date has been extended by eight days, i.e., to Wednesday, December 14, 2011.”
“The ITC is struggling to cope with a huge caseload. It has recently postponed a number of decisions and hearings.,” Mueller reports. “This delay cannot be reasonably interpreted to provide any indication as to what the outcome will be. However, the fact that the delay is relatively short (eight days) indicates that the ITC is very close to a decision and unlikely to postpone it again (though it could).”
Mueller reports, “Whatever the outcome will be, this is still the early stage of Apple’s assertions of intellectual property rights against Android. It’s not going to be the end for either party’s aspirations. If there is an import ban, the key question will be what implications a possible workaround (which HTC and Google are sure to announce) will have.”
Read more in the full article here.
Why did an HTC voice ad turn on automatically on this page? MDN needs to fix their feeds.
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Just had a WTF ad on a different MDN article–“Win an iPhone 5” complete with image of the debunked device. Made a similar comment that MDN needs to better filter their acceptable ads.
I predict that HTC has seen the light (of the oncoming train, that is) and that a frantic negotiation with Apple (one-sided to be sure) is at this moment underway, hence the delay, likely at the request of the litigants. Expect an announcement later this week by both companies and a request to the court that all cases between the two companies be dropped.
Or ITC will just say that there will be no ban and that is it on the sale lame basis as judge Koh did about Samsung’s case — there will be no “irreparable” damage if not to ban.
No. these patent infringements are WAY different than the trade dress stuff. These are functional patents that are not easily dismissed. Also, Apple has already won: this is just an appeal which likely won’t merit review as Apple’s case was very strong.
… iPredict 🙂
ITC will ban HTC phones in nine days 🙂
AAPL stock will rise Up past $424!!!
HTC will ask / beg Apple for something!
And HTC will owe billions ( $3.5B ).
Judgement day: HTC!!! Pay Up!
I don’t believe Steve wanted money – I think from his memoirs was a complete ban of there product since they blatantly stole from Apple…
It would be nice to know which patents are being asserted in this case.