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German patent firm asks retailers to halt HTC sales
Dec 6th, 2011
(Reuters) - Patent firm IPCom said on Tuesday it had asked top German cellphone retailers to stop selling phones of HTC, threatening them with legal action, as HTC has not complied with a court ruling on injunction of its sales. IPCcom also turned to the Mannheim court, asking it to start fining HTC for not following the ruling from 2009. Possible fines from the German court could cost millions of euros and hurt HTC's position in one of its key markets. The company sells around 2 million smartphones a year in Germany, some 4-5 percent of the group's total, according to research firm IDC. ... (Source: Reuters) -
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