http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/04/nokia-streamlines-itc-case-against-htc.html
It seems that a motion for partial termination by Nokia against HTC has been filed. Nokia has dropped three patents from the list of patent violations in hopes of making a stronger case. While dropping the three however, they added four patents at the evidentiary trial.
"The three patents Nokia has dropped are US. patent No. 7,106293 , which is a light guide patent (the Mannheim Regional Court had held the German equivalent of this one not to be infringed by HTC), and two closely-related database synchronization patents. On March 22 I pointed out that one of the patents-in-suit indeed appears to read on tethering and could have enormous commercial value to Nokia going forward. I also expressed my belief that Nokia would "consider withdrawing three" of the five patents with respect to which Judge Pender had construed disputed terms. The three that Nokia has now withdrawn are precisely the ones with respect to which it lost the claim construction battle. So I'm not surprised in the slightest. Pursuing any claims over these patents seemed pretty pointless after the claim construction order, but claim construction is the kind of guidance that parties really need so they can choose which claims to drop and which ones to focus on."
Currently, Nokia has only won against HTC in a German court suit. HTC is therefore counter suing this suit in Germany. HTC is more or less asserting a power-saving patent in its S3 graphics company as well as Qualcomm's Snapdragon chip.
What do you guys think about all this? Let me know!
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