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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Digital World Patent War

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HTC Corporation, a smart mobile phone maker's second-largest in Asia, sue Apple for copyright infringement. HTC dare take such a step after the purchase of 9 patents from Google Inc.
The issue of prosecution of copyright in the digital world into the current trend. It was not separated from the existing range of products on the market that does have a resemblance, both in terms of physical or appearance or content of the operating system.

Example is the most heated feud between Apple and Samsung. Samsung copied Apple feels raw iPAD technology in the form of Galaxy. Charges filed copyright infringement. Where finally, the Galaxy Tab banned in Europe.

Samsung also sued Apple back to steal some of the technologies considered were the work of South Korean companies. Charges were filed in several Asian countries, including Japan and South Korea.
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Now the Taiwanese company, HTC, go sue Apple for infringement of four of the nine copyright had just purchased from Google last week. File claims filed in Delaware, United States.

When Google acquired Motorola's Mobility, last month, the company's biggest search engines get 17 thousand new patents. The amount is enough for Google to open a shop patents and "distributed" to the company's partners.

Google has long feuded with Apple about the patent. Now, with new weapons 17 thousand patents, Google could take his business partner pounding the Apple company once headed by Steve Jobs was.

HTC became one of Google's first business partner sued Apple armed with a patent purchased from Google, four patents were from Motorola, the three of Openwave Systems and two from Palm.

Earlier, HTC filed for a patent to Apple, but until now the lawsuit has not produced results. With the new ammunition, HTC back forward. They claim Apple has plagiarized content Android operating system on the iPhone .

Google's involvement in helping HTC is evidence that a patent war in digital technology, especially cellular phone smarter, more open and heated. "It's like a game," said Will Stofega, a technology analyst.

Stofega add Google's interest in securing a patent on the Android operating system. "Google needs the support of its customers so that customers stay loyal with them."

Google, which has never been sued directly by Apple, has been criticized for his actions that let partners Android users an all-out attack by Apple. Now Google can be a little move by selling his patent rights.

In addition to getting nine copyrights, HTC buy S3 Graphics Co. just a week later after they filed a patent against Apple. So far HTC sued by Apple for copyright infringement.
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"Google knows very well that HTC in a very distressed condition of the lawsuit filed by Apple and the possibility of losing a very large," said Florian Mueller, a German technology consultant.

Google, which has less than 1,000 patents at the beginning of this year, said it would build a portfolio of more robust copyright. This is to ward off various attacks on intellectual property rights more incentive to float.

HTC and Apple is part of the "games" to sue each other about the copyright of the manufacturer of smart phones. That's because the smart phone market increasingly lucrative. According to research firm HIS Inc. smart phone market value this year reached U.S. $ 206.6 million. *** [TECHJOURNAL | DAWNCOM | FIRMAN | KORAN TEMPO 3644]
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