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HTC and Apple agree to 10 year cross-licensing agreement, settle all patent disputes
HTC and Apple have announced that the two companies have settle all of their litigation with a ten-year licensing agreement. Complete details of the deal are confidential, but it looks like Apple and HTC will be spending a lot less money on legal fees over the next decade. The announcement by 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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HTC granted injunction against IPCom in Germany
While HTC may have lost a patent case in the U.S. market, things are looking a little more positive in Germany where HTC was granted an injunction against IPCom this week. Since early 2009, the two companies have been locked in legal battle over 3G patents which are held by IPCom. Here’s a little history…
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ITC sides with HTC in FlashPoint camera patent dispute
The US International Trade Commission issued its final ruling in the FlashPoint patent dispute case, siding with HTC. According to the court documents, the trade commission did not find that any of HTC’s Android or Windows Phone 7 handsets infringe on FlashPoint’s 769 patent. FlashPoint filed its initial dispute against HTC with the ITC back…
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HTC Acquires DashWire, More Cloud For Your Buck?
DashWire is a specialist cloud service, that offers online backup for Mobile Phones, directly from your phone, with or without the assistance of a mediate device like a PC. It works with all of the major mobile platforms, Blackberry, Symbian, Android and Windows Mobile, and lets you backup all of your phone info to the…
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ITC judge rules that HTC did not infringe on imaging patents held by FlashPoint
A U.S. International Trade Commission judge ruled today that HTC’s products do not infringe on several digital-imaging patents held by FlashPoint. The patent dispute focused on technology which was developed and patented by FlashPoint which controls the way a digital camera operates, including the control lens focusing, flash, image rotation based on camera orientation, and…
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HTC and Apple Patent Wars: Bitter Fruit!
In the world of the technology giants, intellectual property is probably their most valuable asset. Age old patents, can come back to bite companies in the butt, but it seems to be the bread and butter of the smartphone industry. Microsoft make more off of their licensing agreements with companies like HTC and Samsung devices…