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Taiwan's HTC sues Apple over patents
- john-n 15y agoAre the patents in question known?
- lambersley 15y agoOne article I read suggested "two of which HTC acquired through a $75m purchase of ADC Technologies in April. (The third was homegrown at HTC.)" US Patent #7,417,944 (ADC) US Patent #7,672,219 (ADC) US Patent #7,765,414 (HTC)
- dminor 15y agoThere are links to them in this article: http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/16/htc-sues-apple-patents/ http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/16/htc-sues-apple-patents/
- barista 15y agoWouldn't it help if Google sued on behalf of all device makers now that it has much larger trove?
- cube13 15y agoMotorola is already suing Apple(and Apple is suing Motorola) over Motorola's patents. That shouldn't change with Google's acquisition, and any resolution of the suit would probably make Apple a licensee of the patents, making them immune to any suits over them.
- barista 15y agoBut given that all these device makers are facing the lawsuits because of their adoption of android its fair for Google to take the moral responsibility and countersue everyone who is suing the device makers. It looks odd that they are left to defend for themselves here.
- mckoss 15y agoA patent holder is not required to license their patent. If found valid by the court, they are free to enjoin others from using their technology for the duration of the patent period.
- cube13 15y agoMotorola is counter-suing Apple, though. Without knowing exactly what patents each party is saying the other is infringing on, I would wager that the endgame for both companies is now a cross-license agreement more than an injunction against the other's products.
- cjboco 15y agoI'm assuming this new suit is based on patents HTC acquired from S3?
- CountHackulus 15y agoI don't think it's ever been as clear as now that the patent system is broken. Everyone is suing everyone else, and if anything innovation just goes on in the background regardless of patents.
- EGreg 15y agoThe Android strikes back! Start of the patent apocalypse. Here is a way to abolish patents -- overload the court system with it.
- ori_b 15y agoThe cynic in me says that will just lead to a bigger court system as they hire more lawyers and judges to handle the increased load.
- Roritharr 15y agoThat's a way to battle unemployment that is caused by technological progress... just enlarge the not-productive sectors until everyone has a job shuffling papers around.
- georgemcbay 15y agoMy next startup is going to be Heroku meets Angie's List for Telephone Sanitizers.
- EGreg 15y agoHelp the world and make your next startup's business model "pay us to find prior art to invalidate patent X, and open source our results"
- JonoW 15y agoThink we're going need a new "who's suing whom" graph, getting hard to keep up... (http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/whos_suing_whom.png http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/whos_suin...)
- roc 15y agoWhen it comes to patent litigation, it's safe to assume that they all are, or will be, bi-directional. Unless one side has no products. If one side merely has no (relevant) patents, it usually just means they're going to go buy some patents and then make their counter-suit.
- guelo 15y agoMaybe true but that obscures the fact that the recent escalation of patent madness is caused by Apple suing every Android manufacturer. What I'm saying is, Steve Jobs is an asshole.
- tsotha 15y agoYou have to wonder how much cheaper mobiles would be if companies hadn't a) patented all the obvious ways to do things and b) spent millions suing each other. I blame the patent office. There was a segment on NPR yesterday where they pointed out in some cases there are thousands of patents that cover the same invention. Isn't that why you have a patent office... to prevent this from happening? Instead all the real decision making is kicked (expensively) into the courts.
- gobongo 15y agoGruber's head is going to asplode when he tries to write the article on how patent litigation is now evil.