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HTC stops selling phones in the UK due to patent dispute
HTC has stopped selling its smartphones in the UK due to a patent dispute, as the company was found to be in violation of an agreement made in 2012.
Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC isn't dead, although it may as well be in the UK. Due to a patent dispute with Munich-based research and development company Ipcom, the company has pulled its smartphones from the UK market. The patent specifically pertains to car phones, which HTC agreed in 2012 to sell their phones in the UK with a workaround. However, Ipcom confirmed via testing that HTC did not implement the workaround, and instead continued to violate the patent. Ipcom said HTC had failed to "play by the rules" and had displayed "disregard for the law by contravening a UK court ruling".