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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 Nerdfest · · Score: 5, Interesting

      If you'd like to help out against Apple (on a different matter), the W3C is looking for prior art on a couple of Apple patents.

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

    What a tangled game; what an impediment to society.

  3. 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?

  4. 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!!!!!
  5. The problem is... by trum4n · · Score: 4

    If any of these were my patents, the judge would tell me to pissoff, and apple would keep using them for free. Then they would re-patent them, like they did with multitouch, magically have no prior art, then i would be sued for infringement.

  6. 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.