HTC’s Patent Tweak Seen as Too Little in Fight With Apple: Tech
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HTC Corp. Asia’s second-biggest maker of smartphones, can tweak the technology in its handsets to avoid a U.S. trade agency ban. Dealing with the threat from Apple Inc.’s and Samsung Electronics Co.’s new devices may prove tougher.
The U.S. International Trade Commission said on Dec. 19 that beginning in April it would ban the sale of HTC phones that infringed an Apple patent on so-called data-detection, such as touching a phone number or an address in an e-mail to dial or find the address on a map. HTC responded by saying it will remove the offending features from its phones.