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Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has said it is prepared to wage a patent war against Apple.
A week ago, HTC was found to infringe two iPhone patents in a case brought by Apple at the US International Trade Commission (ITC)......
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It's not just HTC who is in Apple's firing line. The California-based company, which reinvented the smartphone market, is squaring up to Google and all its partners.
Patent expert Florian Mueller believes that Apple's lawsuit against HTC goes to the heart of Android's "operating system functionalities." He predicts a "serious patent problem" for "the entire Android ecosystem."
Apple's chief operating officer Tim Cook, who runs the company while chief executive Steve Jobs is on sick leave, puts it this way: "We love competition... but we want people to invent their own self, and we're going to make sure that we defend our portfolio."
It's a fight for market share, and it's spilling into the courts. Motorola, Nokia, HTC, Apple, Google and Samsung are all involved in some patent law suit or other.
Ultimately, the outcome will depend on the balance of power - not market share but strength of patent claims.>
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14238741
Buckle up !
Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has said it is prepared to wage a patent war against Apple.
A week ago, HTC was found to infringe two iPhone patents in a case brought by Apple at the US International Trade Commission (ITC)......
........
It's not just HTC who is in Apple's firing line. The California-based company, which reinvented the smartphone market, is squaring up to Google and all its partners.
Patent expert Florian Mueller believes that Apple's lawsuit against HTC goes to the heart of Android's "operating system functionalities." He predicts a "serious patent problem" for "the entire Android ecosystem."
Apple's chief operating officer Tim Cook, who runs the company while chief executive Steve Jobs is on sick leave, puts it this way: "We love competition... but we want people to invent their own self, and we're going to make sure that we defend our portfolio."
It's a fight for market share, and it's spilling into the courts. Motorola, Nokia, HTC, Apple, Google and Samsung are all involved in some patent law suit or other.
Ultimately, the outcome will depend on the balance of power - not market share but strength of patent claims.>
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14238741
Buckle up !