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作者weiter5494@2013-12-04 01:25 AM
HTC One、One mini內含的Qualcomm晶片侵犯Nokia專利EP 0 998 024, 英法官網開一面，自12月6日起僅禁售One mini，遞延One的禁售令讓HTC上訴。Nokia擬就專利侵權部分向HTC求償。今年前三季，HTC累計在英國售出75萬支智慧機。
Considering blocking U.K. sales of the One would cause “considerable” damage to HTC, an injunction against the product has been delayed so HTC could appeal. The HTC One phone contained microchips that breached Nokia’s patent.
- Judge Richard Arnold
The cases are HTC Corporation v. Nokia Corporation, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, Patents Court, HC12A02048 and HC12C02909. HTC sold about 750,000 smartphone... |
Lord Justice Richard David Arnold of the UK High Court
Nokia目前向全球50家廠商提供收費授權；以Android市場而言，向Nokia付費的廠商數大於向微軟付費。現今總共20家Android廠向Nokia繳交權利金。
Just how big is the patent gap? That big.
Source: Chetan (graph)/Jason Mick (modifications)
Samsung helped pioneer a number of mobile standards, yet
found its patents undervalued as they came with mandatory licensing, where as Nokia's patents (which focused heavily on non-standard signal processing electronics)
carried no licensing obligations despite in many cases being virtually ubiquitous and excrutiatingly difficult to design around.
Nokia專利狙擊的對象其實是
Qualcomm跟Broadcom雙通旗下的RF晶片。
The judgment relates to devices using certain chips including (but not limited to) the
Qualcomm WTR1605, Qualcomm WTR1605L, Broadcom BCM4329 and BCM4334. In addition, Nokia believes that the
Broadcom BCM4330 infringes the patent in a similar way to the BCM4329. Nokia therefore believes that any HTC device that uses any of these chips would also be covered by the judgment.
The Qualcomm transceiver WTR1605.
The chips mentioned are found in the HTC One mini, One V, HTC One X+, Desire X, 8X and 8S.
To summarize, the
One mini and 8X are banned from import (but not sale), while the rest of HTC's lineup is currently unencumbered, but if HTC loses its pending appeal, the
HTC One, One mini, One V, One X+, Desire X, (possibly the One Max,) the 8S, and 8X (basically, the phonemaker's entire lineup)
will be banned from both import and sale.
A modern smartphone radio processing chain
Nokia's modulator patent covers both the intermediate frequency (top) and direct conversion (bottom) modulators, which most modern mobile phones now use in their signal processing.
Nokia's technology appears to be used in nearly every major transceiver released in the 2011-2012 window. And it likely also describes elements of more recent transceivers, as well, although that remains to be definitively proven in court.
雙通正設法以新產品繞過Nokia專利。Broadcom最新發布的28nm製程的BCM21892 LTE transceiver. Qualcomm 也發布了WTR1605下一代晶片 - WTR1625L, 明年初更將量產其第一顆（之前都是雙晶片）具載波聚合功能的RF單晶片WTR3925.