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Legal
Apple sue another mobile making rival
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 3 March 2010
Apple is certainly getting into a litigation frenzy to protect the patents that sit behind the iPhone. As well as their ongoing patent squabbles with Nokia, the IT firm this week began legal action against Taiwanese mobile handset maker HTC who they allege have infringed 20 of their iPhone patents.
Apple big cheese Steve Jobs stepped up to defend the new litigation, telling reporters: “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours”.
As well as suing HTC, Apple have made a complaint to the International Trade Commission, who have the power to stop the Taiwanese company from importing their phones into the US, which would be a bummer, for HTC anyway.
Many HTC phones use Google’s mobile operating system Android. Google and Apple have traditionally been friendly competitors, but since both entered the mobile market relations between the two corporations are becoming more frosty.
