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Apple's patent attackApple's patent attackPosted Mar 2, 2010 21:59 UTC (Tue) by chrish (subscriber, #351)Parent article: Apple's patent attack
I wonder how many of these patents apply to Microsoft's mobile phone OS too... My guess would be most of them do.
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Apple's patent attack Posted Mar 2, 2010 22:02 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
But MS is big, so it can just enter a patent cross-licensing deal, and
screw the rest of us while remaining fine itself.
Apple's patent attack Posted Mar 2, 2010 22:04 UTC (Tue) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] Apple might have cross-licensing agreements with Microsoft that prevent them from going after Microsoft, but I don't know that.
Apple's patent attack Posted Mar 3, 2010 9:15 UTC (Wed) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]
Interesting indeed.
A few observartions: Apple attacks HTC, maybe the number one Android phone provider. Apple also does its thing against Google and Linux, both directly and by proxy. Both companies have very good relations, you do not see hostility among them. Are Jobs and Gates (ok, Ballmer) finding Synergies? Or is it mere coincidence? Or are they soooo afraid one of the the other (hard to believe in the case of Microsoft).
Apple's patent attack Posted Mar 2, 2010 22:32 UTC (Tue) by ajross (subscriber, #4563) [Link]
Note that a big chunk of HTC's business is in selling Windows Mobile devices.
There's nothing inherently Android-specific about this suit AFAICS, though clearly the suspicion has to be that Android is the ultimate target.
Android Posted Mar 2, 2010 23:16 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] Android was named in the two actions - Windows was not. That suggests that they might be more interested in targeting one of those systems than the other.Remember that Microsoft has invested in Apple in the past. They may have all kinds of cross-licensing deals in place.
HTC and WinMo Posted Mar 3, 2010 1:57 UTC (Wed) by mrpippy (guest, #57134) [Link]
Windows Mobile isn't specifically named, but the ITC complaint includes all of HTC's Windows
Mobile phones sold in the US over the last 3 years (HD2, Imagio, Pure, Tilt 2, Touch Pro 2, Touch Diamond/Pro).
They (and the Android phones) are accused of infringing on '263, the "Real-time signal
As an interesting aside, the '263 patent was granted in January 2002, almost 8 years after the
HTC and WinMo Posted Mar 3, 2010 8:30 UTC (Wed) by niall.noigiallach (guest, #47469) [Link]
Of course a number of other Vendors had also shipped Workstations with DSP's on the main logic board before this. For example SGI had shipped the Indigo back in 1991( or was it 90?) and heck even the NextCube could be regarded as prior art. I would be very surprised if either of them didn't have some sort of API for accessing the DSP
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