Apple was sued by Elan a year ago. The news is that Elan has filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission asking to bar imports of the allegedly

Apple was sued by Elan a year ago. The news is that Elan has filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission asking to bar imports of the allegedly infringing products. It's a sharper set of teeth, and more pressure on Apple to resolve the suit. Neither MacRumors nor the original Bloomberg article list patent numbers, but this does not appear to involve any of the specific patents involved in the Apple-HTC thing. It appears to relate more generally to the touch sensing hardware Apple uses across their product line. That is not part of the HTC thing because HTC (like everyone else) uses Synaptics. As mentioned in the Bloomberg article, Elan won a suit against Synaptics over the same patent in 2008. It makes sense that they would pursue Apple next, as Apple's Fingerworks-derived touch technology is (to my knowledge) the only thing out there other than Synaptics with any market presence.