Apple’s patent infringement lawsuit: The elephant in HTC’s new headquarters

Apple Online Store“There are not many companies that can get both Google and Microsoft executives to show up at a construction site to say what an indispensable partner they are, but Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC did just that on Friday when they held the ground-breaking ceremony for their new HQ and R&D centre in Taipei,” Robin Kwong reports for The Financial Times.

Kwong reports,” Yet for all the talk of HTC’s technological breakthroughs and creativity in design, the one topic no one wanted to touch was the one on every attending reporters’ mind: Apple’s US lawsuit alleging patent infringement against HTC and what Microsoft and Google’s stance on it would be.”

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26 Comments

  1. “If you represent the establishment as shown in your credentials (odd or what?) and those are your private views, then we probably need more help than I thought.”

    Independent inventors like myself hardly represent the establishment. We spend years fighting established interests to receive fair compensation for our inventions. It is really BS that companies like Apple are allowed to take our inventions without compensation, combine them into their crippled by design products and then claim that they are innovators.

    “The truth is, Apple consumers get more mileage out their products than most things made. All of Apple’s products hold their resale value more than most electronic gadgets made.”

    I have been a avid user of leading edge technology for over fifty years. Apple just does not make the grade. I have from time to time tried their products, the last two being the Airbook and the iPhone and found those products to not be acceptable.

    Apple could make good products if they quit trying to hogtie their customers. But that is not likely to happen.

    There is one area where Apple is very innovative, public relations hype. And it seems there is no shortage of gullible people ready to hand Apple wads of money and assume the position without question.

    Ronald J. Riley,

    Speaking only on my own behalf.
    President – http://www.PIAUSA.org – RJR at PIAUSA.org
    Executive Director – http://www.InventorEd.org – RJR at InvEd.org
    Senior Fellow – http://www.PatentPolicy.org
    President – Alliance for American Innovation
    Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
    Washington, DC
    Direct (810) 597-0194 – (202) 318-1595 – 9 am to 8 pm EST.

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