The District Court of Mannheim, Germany, has dismissed a complaint filed by Nokia accusing HTC of infringing patent EP 1581016, covering a communications network terminal for accessing the Internet, according to HTC.

The court decided that there is no need for further deliberation on the case after the initial hearing since the basis of the accusation was weak, HTC said in an e-mail statement.

To date, of the 24 infringement actions that Nokia has brought against HTC in Germany, two (EP 1329982 and EP 1474750) remain in processing because of concerns over validity, and three (EP 0812120, EP 1312974 and EP1581016) were already dismissed, HTC noted.

Meanwhile, HTC has also issued a statement regarding to a recent injunction order obtained by Nokia against STMicroelectronics, a supplier of components for HTC.

HTC stated that Nokia did not obtain an injunction in the Netherlands, or anywhere else, against shipments of its New HTC One flagship model. The legal proceedings brought by Nokia were solely against ST and HTC was not sued by Nokia in the Netherlands.

While the injunction prohibits ST from selling certain microphones to any company other than Nokia for a period time, the ruling allows HTC to continue to use microphones already purchased from ST because the purchases were carried out in good-faith, HTC said.

HTC will switch to other microphone designs once its inventory of ST microphones is used up, the company said.