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HTC responds to Apple’s lawsuit, will fight

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HTC has finally responded about the patent-infringement lawsuit Apple filed against it two weeks ago. In the lawsuit Apple alleged that HTC was infringing on 20 patents concerning the iPhone user interface and the underlying hardware and architecture. "We can...

Week in Apple: iPad day looms, Mac gamers rejoice, and more

As St. Patrick's Day draws near, Apple fans are counting themselves among the lucky. After all, Steam is finally coming to the Mac, the iPad finally has a ship date, and the...

HTC lawsuit came after warning by Apple to handset makers

Apple COO Tim Cook's warning from early 2009 wasn't the only one that handset makers received before Apple

Analyst: Apple “Disrupting” iPhone Competitors With Legal Threats

Via Apple 2.0, Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner asserts in a research note that Apple’s lawsuit with HTC over the iPhone interface was the culmination of “blunt talks” with other phone manufacturers. According to Reiner, starting in January Apple began closed-door discussions with OEMs regarding the company’s “growing displeasure” with the theft of Apple’s intellectual property. That displeasure...

Apple talks tough to handset makers

The HTC lawsuit capped blunt talks that have reportedly shaken their faith in Google Oppenheimer's Yair Reiner issued a behind-the-scenes report Tuesday that sheds a lot of light on the patent suits Apple (AAPL) filed last week against HTC, the Taiwanese smartphone maker. Citing "industry checks," Reiner writes that: "Starting in January, Apple launched a series of C-Level...

Counting patents: Apple, Google, HTC

With 3,013 patents in its portfolio, Apple would seem to have a significant advantage In the context of Apple vs. HTC (and by proxy, Google), the bar chart at right could prove pretty important. Buried on page 5 of a note to clients issued Sunday by Deutsche Bank's Chris Whitmore, it compares the number of patents filed...

Week in Apple: Steam on the Mac, Apple flings poo at HTC

Apple's lawsuit against HTC may have been the talk of the Internet for most of the week, but Valve's teasers for Steam coming to the Mac took the prize for most exciting...

Google responds to Apple lawsuit against HTC

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There's one more player in the ongoing the Apple/HTC lawsuit announced the other day. It's Google, which yesterday admitted that it wasn't a party to the lawsuit, but that it would "stand behind...

Apple vs HTC: proxy fight over Android could last years

Apple came out swinging Tuesday against smartphone maker HTC, filing a federal lawsuit and a

Steve Jobs: A man aggrieved

A new theory about why Apple decided to take HTC — and indirectly, Google — to court Two thirds of the way through a 3,000-word essay on This Apple-HTC Patent Thing, Daring Fireball's John Gruber quotes a tweet by John Siracusa that gets to the heart of the matter: "To me, the Apple patent suit smells like...

Apple vs. HTC: What the experts say

There's a lot of second-guessing in the second-day stories On Tuesday morning, Apple (AAPL) announced that it had sued Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC for, in Steve Jobs' words, stealing Apple's patented technology. See Apple strikes back. By Tuesday afternoon, the experts had begun to weigh in, although few seemed to have any familiarity with the 20...

Apple’s ITC complaint names HTC phones, 10 other patents

As we reported, Apple filed a federal lawsuit against HTC Tuesday claiming infringement of 10 of Apple's patents related to smartphone technology. Apple said that HTC violated 20 of its patents, and the remaining 10 are covered under a parallel complaint...