“HTC Corp., the Taiwanese smartphone maker locked in a patent battle with Apple Inc., says it’s willing to negotiate with the iPhone maker,” Tim Culpan reports for Bloomberg. “‘We have to sit down and figure it out,’ Winston Yung, chief financial officer of the Taoyuan, Taiwan-based company, said by phone today. ‘We’re open to having discussions.'”
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“HTC on July 6 announced a $300 million deal to buy S3 Graphics Co., less than a week after that company won an ITC ruling against Apple over two patents. In a July 15 initial determination, the same commission ruled in Apple’s favor on two other patents,” Culpan reports. “‘We are open to all sorts of solutions, as long as the solution and the terms are fair and reasonable,’ Yung said. ‘On and off we’ve had discussions with Apple, even before the initial determination came out.'”
Culpan reports, “Yung said he’s not aware of any formal talks having been held since this month’s two separate ITC rulings.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Culpan’s attempt to equate the two S3 patents purchased by HTC and the two Apple patents that HTC infringes upon is laughable. Not all patents are the same. It isn’t 2-2, you have to look at what’s patented. Apple’s patents for data-detection and data transmission are a hell of a lot harder to work around than HTC’s purchased compression patents.
Apple ought to hold these copiers feet to the fire and make them an example to all of the other iPhone and iPad wannabe outfits.
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