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The war of infringement: Apple vs HTC
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| In this great hullabaloo of rivals accusing
| each other of infringement of patents, one is
| only left confused seeing the whoâs who in the
| arena of smartphones making a claim of the same
| victimization. A patent is a set of exclusive
| rights granted by the government to the
| inventor in exchange for a public disclosure of
| the invention. The big question is, will this
| war really see the light of a consensus and
| settlement?
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| Earlier this year in March, Apple filed a
| lawsuit against HTC for infringing 20 of its
| patents related to the iPhoneâs user interface,
| underlying architecture and hardware. The
| lawsuit was filed with the U.S. International
| Trade Commission(ITC) and concurrently in the
| US District Court in Delaware. Very truly itâs
| said that âcompetition is healthy, but the
| rivals should try and yearn to develop their
| own technology and not steal the existingâ.
| This lawsuit; itâs said, is the next high
| profile litigation in the mobile phone business
| after Nokia and Apple attacking each other in
| past few months.
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http://www.itvoir.com/portal/boxx/knowledgebase.asp?iid=1928&Cat=23
ITC Investigating Claims Patent Infringement Against Apple
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2365789,00.asp
US trade panel to investigate S3 complaint against Apple
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| The U.S. International Trade Commission
| (USITC) has launched a formal investigation
| into four patent complaints filed against
| Apple by computer graphics hardware maker S3
| Graphics, which asked the agency to block
| Apple from importing the iPhone, iPad and
| other products into the U.S.
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http://www.techworld.com.au/article/351262/us_trade_panel_investigate_s3_complaint_against_apple?fp=2&fpid=1&rid=1
US investigation might impact Iphone 4
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| APPLE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION by the US
| International Trade Commission (ITC)
| regarding alleged patent infringements of
| image processing hardware and related
| software for its phones, which could include
| the Iphone 4.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1719448/us-investigation-impact-iphone
Recent:
Patent Litigation Weekly: ITC Rolls Out the Welcome Mat for 'Trolls'
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| The International Trade Commission was
| created in 1916 to protect U.S.-based
| companies that made and sold goods within the
| country's borders. In recent years, however,
| the agency's definition of what qualifies as
| "domestic industry" has expanded to the point
| that small patent-holding companies with just
| a handful of employees (Saxon Innovations,
| St. Clair Intellectual Property Consultants)
| and even individual inventors have been
| allowed to proceed with ITC litigation.
|
| Congress helped expand the ranks of who could
| seek remedies at the ITC in 1988 when it
| amended the "domestic industry" requirement
| to include "licensing" as qualification.
| Patent-holding companies have relied on that
| change ever since to justify their arguments
| that the taxpayer-funded ITC should ban
| imports of certain products on their behalf.
| Of course, in 1988, the patent litigation
| landscape was very different, and patent-
| holding companiesâaka "non-practicing
| entities," or "patent trolls"âin the modern
| sense simply didn't exist.
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http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202458253242&Patent_Litigation_Weekly_ITC_Rolls_Out_the_Welcome_Mat_for_Trolls
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