Apple Starts ‘Nuclear War’ in Patent Fight With HTC http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-224223/apple-starts-nuclear-war-in-patent-fight-with-htc Posts in the discussion thread "Apple Starts ‘Nuclear War’ in Patent Fight With HTC" - Apple filed a patent-infringement complaint against Taiwan’s HTC Corp. yesterday, seeking to prevent U.S. imports of phones that run Google Inc.’s Android operating system. The decision to take the case to the International Trade Commission signals that Apple wants to curb HTC’s market share gains as quickly as possible, said an expert. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:21:44 +0000 http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-224223#post-726875 Re: Apple Starts ‘Nuclear War’ in Patent Fight With HTC http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-224223/apple-starts-nuclear-war-in-patent-fight-with-htc#post-726875 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:53:37 +0000 ggiedke 32664 there's some commentary on the suit by Microsoft's VP and Deputy General Counsel Gutierrez:
http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2010/03/16/apple-v-htc-a-step-along-the-path-of-addressing-ip-rights-in-smartphones.aspx

On Slashdot they wonder whether MSFT is preparing the ground for its own patent-assault on Linux:
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/03/17/1321241/Is-Microsoft-About-To-Declare-Patent-War-On-Linux

A new friendship MSFT-AAPL is also observed here, echoing much of the points made by Gutuerrez
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2011334051_brier15.html

A list of the patents in question with some explanations and discussion by Jon Corbet:
http://lwn.net/Articles/376793/

]]> http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-224223#post-714757 Apple Starts ‘Nuclear War’ in Patent Fight With HTC http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-224223/apple-starts-nuclear-war-in-patent-fight-with-htc#post-714757 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:53:48 +0000 ggiedke 32664 http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-03/apple-starts-nuclear-war-in-patent-fight-with-htc-update2-.html

The complete documents for the suit are available here:
http://gizmodo.com/5483632/apple-sues-htc-for-infringing-on-20-iphone-patents?skyline=true&s=i

Jonas Bosson comments in his blog on this topic:
http://bosson.blogspot.com/2010/03/apple-makes-war-with-silly-broad.html

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