One of the things that patent owners can do to protect their products is to register their patent and trademark rights with US Customs. Customs can then sua sponte, or as informed by a patent owner, seize all infringing goods under 35 CFR section 137 and hold the goods until an administrative hearing is held in Washington DC.
Apparently this happened with a shipment of Apple phones into the US. HTC has been longing to get rid of iPhone, iPad, etc. by claiming patent infringement of its graphics patents.
Today, the appeals court at the ITC delcared two graphics patents held by HTC to be not infringed by Apple products. HTC stock fell 5%.
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