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HTC Corp has appealed a British court’s ban on selling its One Mini smartphone in the country following the infringement of a Nokia patent, the company said on Wednesday.
The High Court of England and Wales ruled in October that the Taiwanese phone maker had used Nokia’s technology for the “modular structure for a transmitter” — the chip that processes sound into digital data for radio transmission.
The technology is in a range of HTC phones, but the ban only applies to the newer One Mini and One Max models, effective Friday.
“Rest assured that our award-winning HTC One handset will be available as usual,” the Company said.
The banned models were singled out because HTC knew of the alleged copyright infringement when it developed them, according to some news reports.
Other reports indicated the judge took into account the disproportionate effect that banning the HTC One would have had on the company’s business when deciding not to ban the flagship model.
HTC shares dropped 3 per cent in early trading Wednesday in Taiwan.
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