In a Tuesday ruling in the Nokia-HTC patent-infringement lawsuit, the District court of Mannheim, Germany, awarded Nokia the injunction against the sales of some HTC handsets in Germany. According to Nokia's claims, the HTC handsets infringe on a power-saving technology used in mobile phones.

With Nokia having argued that the power-saving technology has been patented by the company, and that the Qualcomm chips used in HTC handsets infringe on the technology, court spokesman Joachim Bock said that the injunction which Nokia has won in the German court can be enforced against all HTC handsets if Nokia pays a bond of $13.6 million.

Further adding that Nokia is also entitled to damages, Bock said that the damages caused to Nokia by HTC's patent infringement cannot be fixed as yet because HTC has to give details to Nokia about the number of devices sold, as well as some other figures required for calculating the damage amount.

Meanwhile, although the German court's ruling will apparently not affect HTC's business in the country because it covers three handsets - the Rhyme, Wildfire S, and Desire S - which HTC has discontinued in Germany, the company said that it intends appealing the verdict.

Stating that it was "naturally disappointed" with the German court's ruling, HTC argued that the power-saving technology which the in-dispute patent covered was "trivial"; and elaborated that the technology "contributes only a negligible reduction in power consumption."