Apple Sues HTC Again Over Patents

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @06:51PM from the litigation-pie dept.

recoiledsnake writes "Apple is suing HTC again over patent infringement. Apple is adding two new patents to the 20 included in the earlier case while adding additional details to two patents included previously. Although Android is not mentioned in any of the court documents, many of the patent infringement complaints refer to the software rather than the hardware that HTC manufactures, leading to speculation that Google is the real target, especially considering that Android sales are surpassing the iPhone's. With HTC countersuing Apple, Microsoft siding with HTC over Android, and Apple trying to stop import of Nokia phones, it seems like Apple has set off a patent Armageddon in the mobile space."

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Re:I hope they win by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-23 19:39 · Score: 5, Informative

"Nokia started it in October 2009 - prior to that, Apple was a sleeping patent-giant."
At least Nokia's patents were proper *hardware* patents related to GSM technologies *they developed* (and everyone in the industry licenses them). Nokia really did *invent* that stuff (first on market with those, ever). So hardly the same as Apple suing ppl around with lame software patents.