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Apple Wins Injunction Banning Import of HTC Devices
Newly accepted submitter squish18 writes "All Things D reports that Apple has won an injunction banning the import of some HTC phones starting in April 2012. The ruling by the ITC stems from two claims of the '647 patent concerning software used to enter personal data in mobile devices. It is interesting to note that the ITC has also reversed previous rulings regarding regarding infringement of two other '647 claims, as well as patent '263 claims."
It looks like Apple's victory is relatively minor. They lost claims on all patents except for one, and HTC/Google can work on implementing similar functionality in a non-infringing way.
Call them an evil empire all you want, I'm not doing to argue. That's the point you are trying to make. But don't call them an evil monopoly. They aren't a monopoly by any definition. I'm tired of people using that word and not understanding what it properly means.
It's like calling Sarah Palin a stupid man.
"All great wisdom is contained in .signature files"
the first example of a realtime spell checker i encountered in 1997 with MS Word.
And this patent predates that. Filed for on Feb 1, 1996. http://www.google.com/patents/US5946647
So, before you go citing prior art that isn't actually prior, how about you do some basic investigation so you can be informed.