Archive for March, 2010
Apple Suing Phone Maker HTC
Apple litigating handset creator HTC over iPhone copyrights
CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple is litigating Taiwan’s HTC, saying the phone creator has desecrated copyrights connected to the iPhone.
HTC Corp. was the first company to manufacture cell phone based on Google Inc.’s Android operating system, which as emerged as a momentous competitor for the iPhone. It is also making the Nexus One handset that Googleis vending directly to users.
Apple Inc. says HTC has trespassed on 20 of its copyrights casing facets of the iPhone’s user interface andhardware.
In a statement Tuesday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said, “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.”
A message left with HTC was not instantly returned.
