HTC Files Patent Complaint Against Apple
HTC Files Patent Complaint Against Apple
Posted 05/12/2010 at 3:06pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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You may remember a few months back when Apple sued HTC for patent infringement. The case centered mostly around HTC's Android phones. Long story short, it looked a little grim for the relatively young HTC, though it will still likely take years for the case to run its course. But now HTC is coming out swinging, and has filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission (ITC) against Apple for infringing five of their patents. HTC has asked the ITC to ban imports of the iPhone, iPad , and iPod Touch. This is a common request in these cases.
According to GIzmodo (though not yet confirmed), two of the patents are related to power management, two are for personalized phone dialers, and one is for a dialer with special memory access. Apple threw everything they had at HTC, and by comparison this is small potatoes. It could be HTC is attempting to extract a cross-licensing deal from Apple, or just get them to call it a day. No corresponding federal lawsuit has been filed as of yet, but that could be coming too. We'll keep an eye on this one folks.
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AntiHero
May 13, 2010 at 12:25am
Too funny, mainly because it looks like HTC is going "Youre not the only one who can run copyright claims on insignificant things." almost mockingly.
Neufeldt2002
May 12, 2010 at 5:28pm
Unfortunatly this will not lead to cheaper phones, unless apple loses to both HTC and Nokia. Any more takers out there?
TerribleToaster
May 12, 2010 at 5:39pm
I'm glad to see Apple getting a taste of it's own lawyer prescribed medicine, even if it's on the small scale. At least this complaint can't be dismissed like Xerox was in Apple vs Microsoft & HP because of stature of limitations. If HTC can get some sort of settlement with Apple from this it'd be wonderful.
Though for all of Apples claims about promoting competition within the market, they sure play the ball close to the chest when it's competition that threatens them directly, not that I can blame them.
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