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HTC sues Apple over patents

HTC has filed a lawsuit against Apple, claiming patent infringement on three different patents the company obtained in 2008 and 2009. We don't have a lot of information on what patents these are or what HTC believes the infringement to be, but stay tuned -- as soon as we get a hold of the legal documents, we'll do a full breakdown of what the case is here.

And this will complicate things even further in this patented tech space: Apple already has a lawsuit running against HTC, and in that case they've already earned a partial win. It's possible that this is HTC fighting back in kind. The acquisition of all of Motorola's patents by Google, as announced Monday, also puts a wrinkle in things, as HTC is one of Motorola's biggest Android competitors. It's not clear exactly how the company will deal with Google running its own Android phone manufacturer, so the company might have some issues there as well.



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Teknisyan

Another patent war for Apple?!

August 22 2011 at 10:53 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
darrell

what happened to all the fandroids who said Apple is suing cause they can't innovate?

August 16 2011 at 10:36 PM Report abuse +2 rate up rate down Reply
tvo

oh, just stop it. Everybody. Settle down, people, and drop the damn lawsuits! (Yes, that goes for you too, Steve!)

August 16 2011 at 4:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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John Zabba McLean

All of a sudden suing is bad?? lmao

August 17 2011 at 2:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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