Nokia and Blackberry have already weighed in on being dragged into Apple's antennae woes, and now Samsung and HTC have let their opinion be known on the issue. Samsung said: "The antenna is located at the bottom of the Omnia 2 phone, while iPhone's antenna is on the lower left side of the … [Read more...]
Yay, more patent trolling! In fact, I'm calling it. We're making a new section on EiC — Patent Troll! Today we have a company called NTP, who have 50 patents under their belt, including one for wireless email. Using this patent, the previously sued RIM in 2000, and ended up getting $612.5 million … [Read more...]
And so the legal wrangling continues. Apple sued HTC. HTC counter-sued. Apple is now suing again for four more patents: 7,383,453: Conserving power by reducing voltage supplied to an instruction-processing portion of a processor 7,657,849: Unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock … [Read more...]
Apple sued HTC. HTC counter-sued Apple. Now the International Trade Commission has decided that HTC's lawsuit has enough merit to warrant an investigation. HTC is claiming Apple has violated 5 of their patents, primarily involved with telephone dialing and power management. They're requesting a … [Read more...]
When HTC sued Apple yesterday, we were left scratching our heads over what exactly where the patents that Apple allegedly violated. HTC's press release was nondescript, and only mentioned that there were five of them. TechCrunch pulled together a list of the five, and they seem to have to do with … [Read more...]
Well, isn't today litigious? HTC has officially sued Apple for patent violation. Previously, Apple sued HTC, HTC responded in a statement, and are now pressing their own suit. They're attempting to get the ITC (International Trade Commission) to halt the importing of iPhones, iPads and iPods in the … [Read more...]
It's more or less official, Palm is up for sale. The word is that Palm is looking for buyers, with HTC, Lenovo and Dell apparently high up on their list of potential buyers. If HTC were to purchase Palm, many believe that it would be of considerable use for the manufacturer in its legal battles … [Read more...]
Pissed off at Apple because multitasking won't work on your 3G? Had it up to here with AT&T? Decided its time to jump ship, and get on another provider? Well it seems T-Mobile will welcome you with open arms, and a rather hefty discount. Show up with a working iPhone, and you'll get between $100 … [Read more...]
HTC has issued a formal response to Apple's legal threats, and say's HTC will "fully defend itself". The text of the response isn't particularly interesting, and there's no word of a counter-suit. Full press release follows after the break: … [Read more...]
Pretty bold statements from Joe Wilcox of Beta News, who is saying that Apple's suit against HTC is designed to scare off competition, but should do exactly the opposite. He thinks that by targeting HTC instead of Google directly, Apple is on shaky ground with a number of the patents, and Apple are … [Read more...]
