The ITC has issued a ruling in favor of Apple Inc., banning the sale and import or certain HTC phones in the US. The ruling, which was widely scheduled to finally be handed down today after being delayed twice, finds that HTC violates a pair of patents held by the Cupertino company referring to the formatting of data (such as phone numbers) in or else unstructured knowledge (such as emails) allowing users to interreact with them. The ban isn't assigned to be enacted until April 19th of 2012, giving HTC and Google plenty of time to address the court's concerns. The Taiwanese maker could also simply remove the feature from its phones, though, the ability to touch base* with such cue across apps, such as tapping a phone number in an email to dial it, is an ability most consumers expect their devices to support.



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share this: did not find that HTC violated two other patents in question, which related to realtime signal processing and would have been much more serious for HTC to circumvent. Of course, this saga is far from over and we expect these two (along with close to every other mobile erector on the planet) to restart to duke it out in the courts as opposed to in our stores.



You can check out the full PDF of the ruling at the source.



Update: Looks like HTC already has a plan in place to make it all better. Not shocking, but there it is, check out its voice after the break.

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