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Apple sues HTC
THE FIERCELY PROPRIETARY cappucchino company Apple has filed a lawsuit against HTC for allegedly infringing twenty of its patents.
The patents relate to the Iphone's user interface, hardware and architecture. The lawsuit was filed simultaneously with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) and in US District Court.
Steve Jobs adopted his most Bond villain-like pose and said, "We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We've decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours."
Ring any bells? Well it isn't far from the statement released by the firm in December when it countersued Nokia over similar patent claims. "Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours," said Bruce Sewell, Apple's general counsel and senior vice president. Let's just hope that Sewell does not sue Jobs for plagiarism.
In a statement HTC countered, "HTC is a mobile technology innovator and patent holder that has been very focused over the past 13 years on creating many of the most innovative smartphones. HTC values patent rights and their enforcement but is also committed to defending its own technology innovations. HTC only learned of Apple’s actions this morning via media reports, and therefore we have not yet had the opportunity to investigate the filings. Until we have had this opportunity, we are unable to comment on the validity of the claims being made against HTC.” µ
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or Google, or whoever the Cappuccino Mafia is trying to strike with this lawsuit.... I'd release a fix for the finger swiping on the unlock icon. Change the icon to an apple picture (not the Holy Logo, a plain regular red or green apple), then make sure the user is shoving his/her middle finger at that picture (easy with the cam, harder with touch sensore I guess.... ).
Sure, that would not help with the lawsuit, but ....
I read on the other sites list of all patents in question here. On one hand I understand that Apple is trying to protect their work and R&D but on the other hand some of the patents are just silly, like for example 'unlock a phone by swiping your finger'.
It's worth mentioning that iPhone changed a lot in mobile phones market and most of the devices which appeared on the market after iPhone was introduced looked or tried to mimic iPhone's design and functionality. But some of their claims are IMO against Win mobile and Android and not really against HTC as they are software based claims. Funny that they don't sue Microsoft or Google, maybe to big fish to swallow :)
"Steve Jobs adopted his most Bond villain-like pose and said" - it links to wrong article, it links to article related to Nokia lawsuit.
As the title says, HD2 must have snubbed Jobs where it hurt. Now lets hurl some patent B.S at it, see how that turns out. We got money to burn after all..
Not that HTC is at all concerned, I dont think anyone actually takes the mob seriously nowadays, unless ofcourse that is if your a stereotypical APPLE fanboy. You know who you are...
Jobs is so full of himself that he thinks he can sit on his pile of money and force everyone to bow and kneel. I think there is some economical compound that he could take for that, it's called..um...oh yea, Thorazine.
If he wants to talk patents, the open sourcerers (little ones like IBM, Google, Novell, etc.) have a large selection of patents that they can use to take him down. This is exactly what they will do if they feel threatened. Then Jobsy could just pull the plug on selling anything, ever again. No more worshippers, no more crown, no more black turtlenecks (well, maybe he could still get those at Value Village).
So, perhaps being the world's biggest A-hole may not be in the best interest of his shareholders, and perhaps people will not want to buy products from such a pouty megalomaniac?
Wonder how this patent crap will evolve. But you gotta love it HTC's statement - "we found out about from media" ... hey boss they're talking about us on TV, seems like Stevey's not happy with us...
I guess Apple just didn't try to actually talk the dispute over with them... better sue them right away or they might decide and sue us first.
Laughable...
Perhaps this is what St. Jobs had in mind for the 50 billion dollars he just happens to have sitting around loose in the bank? Once Google gets involved, he can kiss his bank account good-bye.
There are lots of starving patent lawyers living under bridges that could certainly use some of this money, so hopefully Apple shareholders will be happy with their spiritual Leader gifting their money to these poor souls in need of sustenance.
I just dont see how patents can really be fair or work anyway. Its almost like patenting a paving stone or a brick and then saying noone else can do that. If its so good why not? Apple dont come up with the only worthwhile ideas, perhaps whoever invented touchscreens should file a complaint against all of them. Or batteries. Unless it is really revolutionary I think patents really should only be available for a year, or perhaps if these companies could really prove they had to do allot of work that it would have been too expensive to develop without the protection of a patent. There really has to be a better way. I think it prevents small comopanies from thriving because companies like Apple can walk all over them. Without patents all we,d get is better products with the best from each of the manufacturers. Competition would remain as not all the manufacturrs would get it right. But I would have an phone or device with the best of every feature.
HTC has been making touch phones longer than apple, and with all the touch phones on the market and coming to the market, it's going to be interesting.
Never occurred to me that apple might try to sue everybody else to maintain their position.