“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,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, in the press release. “We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”
MacDailyNews Note: HTC makes Google’s rebadged “Nexus One.”
Apple reinvented the mobile phone in 2007 with its revolutionary iPhone, and did it again in 2008 with its pioneering App Store, which now offers more than 150,000 mobile applications in over 90 countries. Over 40 million iPhones have been sold worldwide.
Source: Apple Inc.
MacDailyNews Take: Boom! Here we go (finally)! We’ve been waiting for this day for what seems like forever.
A sickening chill just swept through the executive offices of many an iPhone wannabe. This time there’s no poorly-written contract signed by an unprepared sugared water salesbozo.
• We’ve been pushing the state-of-the-art in every facet of design… We’ve been innovating like crazy for the last few years on this and we’ve filed for over 200 patents for all of the inventions in iPhone. And we intend to protect them. – Apple CEO Steve Jobs when unveiling iPhone, January 9, 2007
• We like competition as long as they don’t rip off our IP, in which case we will go after them. We will not stand for having our IP ripped-off and we will use any weapons at our disposal [to stop it]. – Apple COO Tim Cook, January 21, 2009
See also: The specific Apple patents over which Apple is suing HTC
HTC fail
Apple didn’t file in pro-litigant Texas? Have they learned nothing?
I’m getting old, but I seem to remember an early comment … Jobs, perhaps … saying the significant iPhone technologies were patented as tightly as the lawyers could manage. And just a bit more. Did he really say that? Or is it the Mad Cow kicking in? (or, perhaps, a bit of both?)
As an AAPL shareholder, I can only say ‘Thank you!’ for protecting MY property.
Boom! indeed!
This is what the $40 billion is for. Litigation is expensive, especially when you intend to win!
Tim has officially ‘suited up’
@X
Yeah! So now they better play like the Canadian Olympic hockey teams!
Let the games begin.
…about freaking time!!! but it’s gonna be fun to watch (reaching for popcorn…)
Apple ain’t taking this shit. Google wants to kill the iPhone. Did they acutally think apple wouldn’t come out swinging?
Let the games begin!
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Yeah, when somebody with $40 billion in the bank unleashes the hounds on you, I’d think a “cold chill” would be an understatement (especially when they have a legal leg to stand on).
Down goes HTC, down goes HTC!. (Said in Howard Cosells voice, as in “Down goes Frazier, down goes Frazier”.
I hope this time, the Jedi defeat the Sith in the Clone Wars.
DLMeyer writes, “Apple didn’t file in pro-litigant Texas? Have they learned nothing?”
The “Rocket Docket” is structured to advantage individuals against “greedy heartless” corporations, however ridiculous their claims. It wouldn’t know how to decide between one g-h corporation and another.
Nexus One, will have a new use soon. A paper weight…
I don’t understand…
What about Google? Google helped design the Nexus One, wrote the software and UI and sells it as their own.
Apple should sue Google as well.
If Android is found to violate any patents, Apple shares will soar.
Try finding a jury that will believe that Eric Schmidt truly excused himself and did not overhear ANY useful information when Jobs presented information to the board.
Apple did not enter the search engine market, Google entered the smartphone market.
What an appropriate term…
BOOM… can’t wait for the fireworks
Book ’em, Danno!
I have a strong feeling that google and android are next. For the moment though it looks like HTC is in the hot seat…
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It’s a good thing that Apple are moving to protect their patents.
The only problem is that the courts are very slow to come to a decision, and when they do, there’s are appeals which delays the final outcome even more.
Just look at the lawsuit with Psystar (sp?). That took over a year to resolve.
In the meantime the tech just moves on. Companies modify their new products to beat the patents using the money they made in the first versions.
Apple have to do this but I doubt anything will happen soon, if ever.
You know that a lot of the IP of the iPhone is in the iPad! THIS IS A WARNING TO THOSE NetBook MAKERS, YOU ARE NEXT IF YOU TRY TO COPY THE iPad’s IP!
So, as the NetBook sales die off this year and that is where the PC box maker have their growth, HOW FAR WILL THEIR STOCKS DROP THIS YEAR AND NEXT!
I want DETAILS!! Which 20 patents is Apple claiming that HTC infringed upon. This going to be better than the O.J. trial.
@DLMeyer
“Apple didn’t file in pro-litigant Texas? Have they learned nothing
@DLM. You don’t have to go to Texas is you have a solid case!
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