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Apple against Android: A slight victory over HTC cost $ 100 million
It became known that Apple expenses during a recent proceedings against the Taiwanese company HTC amounted to about $ 100 million. It took so much to accuse the HTC of violating the "apple" patents and provide the necessary evidence.
The victory turned out to be very insignificant, since competitors easily bypass all obstacles, making changes to their products. According to CNews.ru , the creator of the popular Blog The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs ("Secret Diary of Steve Jobs") Dan Lyons, a journalist of the American weekly Newsweek, is also a popular author of Forbes magazine, came to this conclusion.
The initially submitted Apple to the US International Trade Commission (ITC), the complaint against HTC contained 84 claims for 10 patents, but by the time it came to the judge’s table, only four of the patents were left, and the evidence for other claims were rejected.
As a result, one of the Apple patents, which appeared in the complaint, was recognized as the judge invalid, since he was never registered with the "apple" company. The other HTC patents, as the judge decided, did not violate. Moreover, Apple herself did not use the technologies described in them in her products, so she did not have the right to demand a ban on smartphone imports. The guilty of HTC was found only in violating one patent - it really belonged to Apple, and the company at that time used the technologies described in it at that time.
It was such a victory that cost the "apple trees" 100 million. In the HTC, by the way, they immediately announced that disputed technologies relate to the "insignificant user interface function" and the company intends to remove them from its smartphones.
At the moment, Apple is suing several smartphone manufacturers in Europe, Asia and Australia, accusing competitors of illegally using their technologies. She has to lead the main battles in the framework of a large -scale patent confrontation with her main competitor in the world smartphone market, the South Korean Samsung Electronics. Both companies have already filed against each other more than 30 claims in two dozen countries.
Google has long refrained from direct participation in these disputes, but recently promised full support to all manufacturers of devices based on his mobile platform.
It is easy to imagine, writes an analyst blogger that this amount of 100 million grows at times when it comes to such powerful players as Motorola MoblieTy, which was purchased by Google last year, and now is close to the ban on apple-fiber products in Germany, or Samsung, the owner of the world's largest patents on mobile technologies.
In the official biography of Steve Jobs, who had died on October 5 last year, Walter Isexon, the words of the creator of Apple are given that he is ready to “start a nuclear war” rather than licensing his technologies to manufacturers of Android semartphones, even for money.
Doustos hated and threatened to destroy Android, "because it is a stolen product." “You have stolen us dirty, completely and completely stolen the idea of the iPhone. And I will be up to the last, if necessary, to fight this. I will spend the last center of $ 40 billion on the Apple account, but the existing state of affairs,” the then leader and ideologist Apple to his main competitor turned.