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Apple Sues HTC For 20 Patent Violations In Phones
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."
Remember this day. This marks the day that you were incredibly, horribly, enormously guilty of hyperbole.
You mean now we have to RTFP too? There goes my lunch...
> Thats even with the few quarks that need to be worked out.
You might want to keep the charming quarks.
More than one finger? At once?! I, err, I need to go to the bathroom now.
Would you like a slice of toast?
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?
And I heard that if Superman ever fought the Hulk, the Hulk would win on account of his boundless rage.
by Mike Buddha -- Someday the mountain might get him, but the law never will.