Apple Inc is suing HTC, the maker of many of Google’s Nexus One and many other smartphones that run on Android for infringing Apple patents.
“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,”Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a press release. “We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”
Apple alleges that HTC infringed some 20 patents related to the iPhone’s GUI, underlying architecture and hardware according to the suit filed concurrently with the U.S. International Trade Commission and in U.S. District Court in Delaware
Late last year, Apple filed a suit against Nokia over similar patent litigations.
HTC, formerly High Tech Computer Corporation, is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of smartphones. The company initially made smartphones based primarily on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile software, but in 2009 it began to shift its focus away from Windows Mobile devices, to devices based on the Android operating system.
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