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HTC sues Apple with Google’s patents

Categories: Apple, HTC, Legal
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 at 2:50 PM
HTC sues Apple with Google's patents

HTC is hitting Apple with another patent infringement lawsuit but this time it’s using patents that it obtained from Apple rival Google just last week.

According to Bloomberg: “HTC sued Apple today in federal court in Delaware, claiming infringement of four of those patents that originally were issued to Motorola. Taoyuan, Taiwan-based HTC also amended a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington, alleging infringement of three patents first issued to Openwave and two others originally owned by Palm.”

What does this mean in the short term? Not much. I doubt we’ll see Apple products being pulled from U.S. stores any time soon and this is just the latest fight in the mobile patent war. Look for the lawyers to get rich and for HTC and Apple to eventually sign some form of cross-licensing agreement years down the road.

[Via Bloomberg, photo]

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Marin Perez

Marin Perez has torture tested cell phones and smartphones for industry leaders like CNET and InformationWeek. He remembers when 4G was just a screen on PowerPoint presentations and is fascinated with the amount of innovation out there. Marin has spent a lot of time with BlackBerry and Android but he finally broke down a bought an iPhone to see what all the hype's about. He also has too many tablets.

  • Darrajsam

    Seems this is a bargaining tactic. Apple has patents,… HTC now does too …so maybe they can negotiate a settlement where both products can be sold…. thus allowing the consumer to buy the one they like best.

    you know, like they way it was before Apple started suing instead of creating