TV, NetChannel can turn a television set into an Internetterminal that enables users to send e-mail, interrogate the Web or share ideas with various interest groups around the world (eg, alt.nature.beehives).
Today, the District Court of Mannheim dismissed a complaint by Nokia that HTC had infringed the German part of patent EP 1 581 016 (the '016 patent) entitled "A Communication Network Terminal for Accessing Internet", and awarded HTC its legal costs.
For example, adding Flash to do something like watch a YouTube video requires users to go into a terminal line-code and type a long internet address to download the software: it seems impossible to cut-and-paste the address.