Apple Sues HTC For 20 Patent Violations In Phones

Apple Sues HTC For 20 Patent Violations In Phones 434

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @12:45PM from the sorry-about-your-luck dept.

eldavojohn writes "Taiwanese HTC is being sued by Apple for 20 patents regarding the many phones HTC manufactures. Steve Jobs was quoted as saying, '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.' Apple has similar patent litigation with Nokia and may be trying to scare the rest of the industry into licensing patents similar to the Microsoft-Novell and Microsoft-Amazon deals regarding patents covering Linux functionality."

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Re:Apple is the new Microsoft (Score:5, Funny)

by whisper_jeff ( 680366 ) writes: on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @12:59PM (#31331492)

Remember this day. This marks the day that you were incredibly, horribly, enormously guilty of hyperbole.

Re:Apple owns a patent for screen rotation? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @01:05PM (#31331606)

You mean now we have to RTFP too? There goes my lunch...

Re:Maybe Apple should pay their royalties first? (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @01:20PM (#31331836)

> Thats even with the few quarks that need to be worked out.

You might want to keep the charming quarks.

Re:Maybe Apple should pay their royalties first? (Score:3, Funny)

by Rosy At Random ( 820255 ) writes: on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @01:55PM (#31332472) Homepage

More than one finger? At once?! I, err, I need to go to the bathroom now.

hipster sense tingling (Score:4, Funny)

by nomadic ( 141991 ) writes: <nomadicworld@@@gmail...com> on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @02:12PM (#31332772) Homepage

Actually Apple did offer to license the patents from Nokia but Nokia tried to get Apple to give them all of the family jewels instead of the reasonable licensing they offered the other smart phone makers. Apple offered to give them access to the patents that Nokia is being sued for violating but that wasn't enough for Nokia. Apple was sitting there taking it for a while but now that they are the target of all the other smart phone makers it's time to take off the gloves and get back in the game!

You're typing that from a coffee shop, from your macbook, aren't you?

Re:hipster sense tingling (Score:3, Funny)

by sbeckstead ( 555647 ) writes: on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @06:30PM (#31336904) Homepage Journal

Actually a Dell running Windows XP, why?

Re:Maybe Apple should pay their royalties first? (Score:3, Funny)

by Mike Buddha ( 10734 ) writes: on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @07:30PM (#31337808)

And I heard that if Superman ever fought the Hulk, the Hulk would win on account of his boundless rage.

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Re:Apple is the new Microsoft (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Apple owns a patent for screen rotation? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Maybe Apple should pay their royalties first? (Score:3, Funny)

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