ITC Finds HTC Guilty Of Infringing On Apple Patents; Bans Some HTC Phones In US
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ITC Finds HTC Guilty Of Infringing On Apple Patents; Bans Some HTC Phones In US
Apple had filed a lawsuit against HTC alleging that the Taiwan based handset manufacturer has infringed on nearly 20 of Apple's proprietary inventions relating to the iPhone's UI, architecture and hardware.
Apple had also filed a second lawsuit in July, claiming infringement of 5 more patents.
Back in July, a US International Trade Commission (ITC) judge has ruled that HTC has infringed on two Apple patents:
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Apple is just slowly getting rid of competition
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"..."data tapping patent": a patent on an invention that marks up phone numbers and other types of formatted data in an unstructured document, such as an email, in order to enable users to bring up other programs (such as a dialer app) that process such data." - Sony Ericsson had this for years - my P900 had this feature in 2004. When US will finally change their laws to ban patenting things, which have been implemented already?
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Too bad most of the Apple patents date back to 1999, because their lawyers had the foresight to protect in-house developments.
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Slowly getting rid of the competition? Are you for real??
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Because Google now holds a bucket of patents in the mobile hardware space. Apple wants to stay well away from that.Moreover, they also hold a cash heap that rivals Apple.You don't throw rocks at the hornet's nest. You hit the individual hornets with a flyswatter :)
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The curious case of patents, I need to see this movie asap.
