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HTC Ready For Apple Patent War

Posted by samzenpus on from the one-bad-apple dept.

chrb writes "The BBC have an interview with HTC CEO Peter Chou. Last week, a judge at the International Trade Commission found that HTC had violated two of Apple's patents. HTC shares fell 7% on the news. Chou predicts that HTC will win an appeal against the ITC finding in December. He also reveals that HTC is preparing to fight back; it will soon acquire an extra 235 patents from its takeover of S3 Graphics — including two that Apple has already been found guilty of infringing."

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  1. Another round by Quila · · Score: 3, Informative

    Apple paid the lion's share for the 6,000 Nortel patents purchased by the Apple/MS/RIM consortium.

    And much of that isn't software patents and such, it's hard-core telecommunications patents, including many covering LTE.

  2. This American Life - "When Patents Attack" by rcb1974 · · Score: 4, Informative

    NPR just aired a great story about the problems with some patents including software patents. It is nice to hear this stuff in mainstream media because it means more people are getting informed. That will hopefully result in more action to clean up this mess. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack Check it out.