Guest Paul Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 This just breaking...! :) P HTC SUES APPLE FOR PATENT INFRINGEMENT Complaint outlines five HTC patents infringed by Apple products Seattle – May 12, 2010 – HTC Corporation today took legal action against Apple Inc., filing a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) to halt the importation and sale of the iPhone, iPad and iPod in the United States. “As the innovator of the original Windows Mobile PocketPC Phone Edition in 2002 and the first Android smartphone in 2008, HTC believes the industry should be driven by healthy competition and innovation that offer consumers the best, most accessible mobile experiences possible,” said Jason Mackenzie, vice president of North America, HTC Corporation. “We are taking this action against Apple to protect our intellectual property, our industry partners, and most importantly our customers that use HTC phones.” HTC’s commitment to innovation has continued for more than a decade as it has focused on building a portfolio of the world’s most advanced smartphones that are inspired by consumers and provide them with a variety of choices in software, design, form-factor, price and wireless carrier. Today, consumers in the United States can choose between 12 HTC smartphones with the national wireless carriers. HTC has continuously strived to bring innovative smartphone choices to consumers, like the recently unveiled HTC EVO 4G with Sprint, DROID Incredible by HTC with Verizon Wireless and the HTC HD2 with T-Mobile. For more information on HTC’s long-standing commitment to consumers innovation and choice go to: www.htc.com/quietlybrilliant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 It was inevitable I guess! :) P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Need_A_Username Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 (edited) Haha, nice! That's what they get for suing HTC :) Edited May 12, 2010 by Need_A_Username Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Drefsab Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 Lots of people keep going on about apple will crush HTC on this, I really hope they bother to do their research as HTC have been making touch screen smart phones before the iphone even started development :) would be interesting to see how much prior art and existing products on market gets them along with the patents they hold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pascanu Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 Do we know exactly what patents are being involved? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest klutsh Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 Taken from Gizmodo: Two are related to power management, two are over personalized phone dialers, and one's over a telephone dialer with easy access memory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 42turkeys Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 Serves Apple right. Take that Steve Jobs! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Subject Delta Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 This "sue and countersue" bullcrap going on between HTC, Nokia, and Apple seems to me to be a case of legal penis waving. "Hey you stole from me... Well actually you stole from me first... Well actually you both stole from me". Personally, whilst I would love nothing more than to see HTC take Apple down a few pegs (someone certainly needs to) the only hope we ever have of obliterating this kind of crap is if there is a reform of patent law in the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest McSpoon Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 :) The whole patent nonsense is just getting silly. Perhaps you should submit a MoDaCo patent for online kitchens generating customized firmware. It's the way of the future and even Apple might go that way eventually. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kitchencop Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 Yeah F**K YOU APPLE!!!! HTC for the WIN!!!!! I will never buy an Apple product . Glad to see HTC standing up to them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest afiorillo Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 (edited) HTC just said STOP to that pseudo-religion depicting Apple as The First And Only Smartphone Maker In This Universe. That is an idea existing in Steve Jobs' brain only, and the simple fact that millions of fanboys repeat it everyday does not make it more true. :) Edited May 13, 2010 by afiorillo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HustlinDaily Posted May 17, 2010 Report Share Posted May 17, 2010 :) The whole patent nonsense is just getting silly. Perhaps you should submit a MoDaCo patent for online kitchens generating customized firmware. It's the way of the future and even Apple might go that way eventually. ;) Yeah Paul you gotta make that patent before Steve Jobs does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Helder Campos Posted May 17, 2010 Report Share Posted May 17, 2010 :) The whole patent nonsense is just getting silly. Perhaps you should submit a MoDaCo patent for online kitchens generating customized firmware. It's the way of the future and even Apple might go that way eventually. :D Yes! i've allready seen some other dev's doing the Kitchen's ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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