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Forty-eight, and counting...
It's becoming an ever more pernicious feature of the technology landscape - legal manoeuvrings for battle positions by rival companies. And Android, and Google, are at the centre of a lot of manoeuvring...
The FOSS Patents blog has noted that - according to the U.S. International Trade Commission website - Apple has filed another patent infringement complaint against HTC, last Friday (8th July). This apparently takes the total of Android-related lawsuits to forty-eight.
It's becoming an ever more pernicious feature of the technology landscape - legal manoeuvrings for battle positions by rival companies. And Android, and Google, are at the centre of a lot of manoeuvring...
The FOSS Patents blog has noted that - according to the U.S. International Trade Commission website - Apple has filed another patent infringement complaint against HTC, last Friday (8th July). This apparently takes the total of Android-related lawsuits to forty-eight.
It writes:
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[Via TalkAndroid]
By my count, that's Android-related lawsuit no. 48 (some disputes consist of multiple lawsuits). Apple asserts five patents (listed further below), three of which are also being used against Samsung (in federal court, not before the ITC). This is already Apple's second ITC complaint against HTC. The first one was filed on March 2, 2010 over ten patents.Where will it all end? Well, the case of Jarndyce-and-Jarndyce suggests the legal proceedings will only really end when lawyers have bled a party dry...
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[Via TalkAndroid]
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