On Friday April 12th, Nokia filed a motion for partial termination on a patent against HTC with the USITC. Nokia drops three patents from its complaint and will now focus on four patents-in-suit to being on May 31st. Originally Nokia asserted nine patents against HTC. This was clear earlier last year when Nokia withdrew a patent in October 2012 and dropped several claims from one patent. This is not really Nokia's doing. The USITC generally wants complainants to narrow their cases. Nokia had to do the same thing with Apple in a previous case. Also, four patents is a pretty average number for ITC trials if the original assertions involves nine or ten patents.
Patent dropped the following three patents: "U.S. Patent No. 7,106,293, which is a light guide patent and two closely-related database synchronization patents, U.S. Patent No. 6,141,664 and U.S. Patent No. 7,209,911. "
The ITC is not only the court that Nokia has filed a complaint against HTC in. Nokia recently won an injunction in a German court injunction against HTC. HTC hasn't taken this lightly. HTC has also filed several claims against HTC in ITC and German courts. It's asserting its power saving patents.
It is interesting that this article's author has already predicted the outcome of this patent streamlining. I wonder how experienced patent lawyers analyze a specific patent situation. I wonder how much experience you need in the industry to be a successful and experienced patent lawyer.
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