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Now, if Apple and HTC reach a cross-licensing agreement that includes these patents, could apple later sue another android manufacturer using them?
by amatheus 15y ago
Now, if Apple and HTC reach a cross-licensing agreement that includes these patents, could apple later sue another android manufacturer using them?
- Tyrannosaurs 15y agoDepends what the agreement says but in theory yes. Certainly once Apple have a license to these patents they lose any defensive/offensive capability they have in relation to Apple. Possibly one of the terms of the sale of the patents (or licensing or whatever it is - a straight sale seems wrong to me, why would Google, who have a notoriously weak patent portfolio, sell part of it when they could protect HTC without actually losing the patent) is that any agreement has to relate to all devices running Android, not just HTC devices.