NTP awakes, sues Apple, Microsoft, Google, HTC, LG, and Motorola over wireless email patents
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Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: htc, legal, microsoft, motorola, patent-lawsuit, patentlawsuit, patents, several-patents
HTC files patent complaint against Apple, asks for ban on iPhone, iPad, and iPod
We'd been wondering how and when HTC would respond to Apple's patent lawsuit , and here we go: the Taiwanese phone manufacturer just filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission, asking for importation and sales of the iPhone, iPad, and iPod be halted due to alleged infringement of five patents. ITC complaints like this are pretty familiar territory -- you'll recall that Nokia and Apple have both asked for similar bans in their lawsuit against each other -- but the interesting wrinkle here is that HTC apparently hasn't filed a corresponding federal lawsuit. We'll see if that's the next step for HTC down the line -- for now, we're digging into what patents are involved in the ITC complaint, so stay tuned
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, breakingnews, down-the-line, importation, interesting, international, ipad, iphone, lawsuit, patent-lawsuit, result
HTC responds to Apple’s patent lawsuit, will ‘fully defend itself’
HTC hasn't filed its official reply to Apple's patent lawsuit in court yet, but the company just gave us an updated and expanded statement on the case, saying that while it "strongly advocates intellectual property protection," it disagrees with Apple's actions and will "fully defend itself." Natch. HTC obviously wasn't eager to divulge whether or not that means it's going to countersue Apple with its own patents, but we're sort of expecting it -- we'll find out more when lawyers do their thing in a few weeks. Oh, and we also asked HTC if and when Google would get involved, but didn't get an answer -- we'll let you know if we hear anything
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, engadget, find-out-more, fully-defend, htc, lawsuit, patent-lawsuit, protection, whether-or-not
Google responds to Apple’s HTC lawsuit: ‘We stand behind our Android operating system’
We were wondering when Google would have something to say about Apple's patent lawsuit against HTC , since the majority of the claims appear to implicate Android itself , and while the knives aren't out yet, we just got a short-but-sweet statement from a spokesperson: "We are not a party to this lawsuit. However, we stand behind our Android operating system and the partners who have helped us to develop it." We're quite curious to see whether this means Google will contribute money and/or manpower to HTC's legal defense -- we'd bet we'll see some of Eric Schmidt's crew at the table when this thing finally hits a courtroom
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: apple, entry, htc, legal, patent, patent-lawsuit, smartphone, stand-behind, statement, taiwan, the-smartphone, think-the-suit, will-contribute