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HTC CEO describes Apple patent licensing estimated are outrageous, baseless and very, very wrong
A little over a week ago, HTC and Apple announced a 10-year joint patent licensing agreement which settled all legal disputed between the two companies. Terms of the agreement are confidential, but an industry analyst estimated that HTC would be paying Apple $6 to $8 for every Android phone that the
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HTC LTE patent could be used to block iPhone 5 from U.S. market
Apple may have won its case against Samsung, but that has not changed HTC’s resolve to battle things out with Apple and protect its intellectual property. In one of the many legal spats the two companies are tied up in, HTC is accusing Apple of infringing on one of its patents which they deem is…
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ITC grants Apple motion – HTC not allowed assert Google’s patents against Apple
HTC can’t seem to catch a break is its ongoing patent battle with Apple. On Friday, an ITC judge granted an Apple motion which effectively stripped HTC of five patents which it acquired from Google last summer. The Apple motion was granted since the ITC judge claims that HTC failed to secure all rights to…
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ITC rules is Apple’s favor, HTC handset ban to go into effect on April 19
The International Trade Commission ruled yesterday that HTC handsets are indeed infrongign on Apple’s patent (#5,946,647) and has imposed a ban on HTC’s infringing handset which goes into effect on April 19, 2012. While the original patent dispute brought forth by Apple names phones like the HTC EVO 4G, HTC DROID Incredible, T-Mobile G2 and…
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HTC America President says the iPhone isn’t as cool as it used to be
Martin Fichter, president of HTC America took the stage yesterday in Seattle at the Mobile Future Forward conference to share his ideas on the future of the mobile industry. Some of the topics that Fichter touched on included Google’s plans to buy Motorola, the ongoing patent disputed between HTC, Apple, and other manufacturers, the state…
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A closer look at the patent battle between HTC and Apple
While we wish HTC and other manufacturers would simply focus on making the best phones on the market, the reality of the mobile industry is that millions of dollars are being pulled away from research and development each year to support massive armies of lawyers to battle things out on with on the patent battlefront. …
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HTC fights back, sues Apple for patent infringement
Apparentlym HTC isn’t simply going to lay back and take a beating from Apple on this whole pattent infringement issue. HTC has fired back with their own lawsuite againg Apple, alleging that they are infringing on five of HTC’s patents with the production and sales of the iPhone. “We are taking this action against Apple…