Yep, they removed it long ago.
Truth is, Rezound buyers were worried about this hitting them around the turn of the year when the decision went down.
HTC had until April 19th to comply and according to accounts pushing this story, this is the first major shipment since that date.
As others have been entering the country before this, this could have been checked by Apple at any time, and no doubt was.
So this is just another Apple predatory practice.
The HTC stock drop and scare that hit their record growth last year in November was tied directly to this same case.
Apple is after all Android, but certainly the company that built the first one, HTC.
And yes, the horse named "this feature was done before Apple patented it" was beaten to death last year without success.
The patent system got broken terribly during dot com days legislation.
You live in a country where a recent patent was granted for making toast - "the bread freshening method." Look it up if you don't believe me.
Nothing here was invented by Apple. Nothing.