Nokia has been hammering HTC with lawsuits in a variety of markets, with meager results. The rather narrow sales injunction against the HTC One mini was recently overturned by an appellate court in the United Kingdom. But hope springs eternal because Nokia has now finally landed a broad patent win against HTC. The patent in question concerns USB technology and how a PC selects the proper driver when it connects to a phone. This technology is used by all HTC Android phones and the sales injunction granted by the German court could thus block sales of all HTC Android models in Europe’s largest phone market. However, as we have seen with prior patent cases, major sales injunctions tend to get repealed on appeal. This
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