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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. ...Huh. by JustAnotherIdiot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While I do hope Apple loses this patent troll suit...

    "it will soon acquire an extra 235 patents from its takeover of S3 Graphics"

    ...I really hope HTC doesn't become tomorrow's patent troll.

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    What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
    1. Re:...Huh. by jader3rd · · Score: 3, Insightful

      ...I really hope HTC doesn't become tomorrow's patent troll.

      I think of patent trolls as those who don't produce anything (or anything of perceptible market value), yet sue over the fact that they hold a patent. HTC is actually producing products.

    2. Re:...Huh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Do you really think Apple is the only one stifling progress? That's my point, and that's why the GP's point is idiotic. All of these patent suits stifle progress and being in favor of other companies becoming patent trolls just for the sake of seeing Apple lose a lawsuit is idiotic.
       
      Do you really think Apple losing a patent suit will make them against Apple. Are you new here? When Microsoft lost patent suits, did they go all out against software patents? When Apple lost previous patent suits, did they do it? You guys are so blinded by Apple hate that you're acting stupid.

  2. Play with fire and get burned by walshy007 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think it is very fitting, for companies who sue using patents to have said sued companies come back with even more patents and try to cause financial harm to them in the same manner.

    There are too many people in the world for ideas to be the property of a single man. Companies still get first mover advantage if they are the first to do something.

  3. Chess with patents? by Rambo+Tribble · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What a tangled game; what an impediment to society.

  4. Ready for War or Negotiation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    (Posting as AC because I'm at work and I don't log into websites from work...)

    According to Bloomberg, HTC is ready to negotiate with Apple. Now, I know that's not as exciting as "HTC Ready for Apple Patent War" because there's just so much sensationalism in that, but why let facts get in the way of sensationalism, right?

  5. anti-competition by SkunkPussy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about we compete on innovation instead of on ability to lock a competitor out of a market?

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    SURELY NOT!!!!!
  6. Re:Obviously by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Didn't you get the memo? Steve Jobs personally invented every aspect of personal computing, 13-proton nuclei, and the physical property of capacitance. HTC, by contrast, is definitionally incapable of doing anything except copying American Innovations...