Taiwan's top smartphone maker HTC said Wednesday it was "delighted" after a German court dismissed another patent infringement complaint brought against it by Finnish phone giant Nokia. The District Court of Mannheim in south-west Germany dismissed the complaint on a patent regarding "a communication network terminal for accessing Internet" on Tuesday and awarded HTC its legal costs, the company said.
In a rare move, the court handed down its judgement immediately after the hearing, indicating that "Nokia's infringement case was so poor that the court required no time to deliberate further", it said in a statement.