Tuesday’s US ruling has fortunately favored Taiwan's leading smartphone maker HTC as the ruling has declared that HTC has partially infringed a patent owned by the US technology giant Apple.

Earlier in March last year, the US firm filed a complaint against HTC for violating several patents. Later, based on accuses of infringement, the US International Trade Commission ordered HTC to stop importing April 19 smartphones in to the United States that were being said to use certain patents by Apple.

But during Monday’s hearing, the commission cleared in its ruling that HTC has violated only one of the several patents claimed by Apple and thus he has reversed the decision of the previous ruling, which said that HTC had broken multiple claims of two separate patents.

This decision stands no less than a win for HTC, the company said in a statement. HTC also described the patent it had broken as a "small user interface experience", which it said it will soon remove and refresh all of its phones clearing the fears of any affect on the firm's sales in the United States.

Investors in the market have warmly welcomed the news of the ruling, which has seen the HTC shares going up and closing on a high of 7% than the daily limit i. e. at $476.0 in Taipei trading.

“The outcome of the final ruling is better than the market had expected, as most of the affected items were old models the company put on the market last year”, said Mr. Mars Hsu, of Grand Cathay Securities. “Besides, I believe HTC has sufficient time to make adjustments on its design and marketing strategy before April 19”, he added.