ITC rejects Google's "patent loan" to HTC
The International Trade Commission has rejected HTC's attempts to use five patents on loan from Google against Apple in smartphone-related complaint. ITC Administrative Law Judge Thomas Pender agreed with Apple's arguments that only Google, and not HTC, has the proper legal standing to assert those patents. HTC became the first target of legal action by Apple in 2010 after the company warned smartphone makers that Android violated its iPhone-related patents. While a federal lawsuit is pending, Apple also filed a parallel patent infringement claim with the ITC. Apple ended up...
Published By: Ars Technica - Tuesday, 12 June, 2012
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