HTC sues Apple, under Google’s watchful eye

HTC has filed a lawsuit against Apple in a Delaware court: as often happens in legal disputes between telephone giants, this time too, alleged patent infringements.
are at stake. The biggest novelty in this case is that the patents in question were recently acquired by HTC and the previous owner of these patents was Google.
The transfer of these patents reportedly happened a few days ago – on September 1st – and no details have been disclosed regarding the value of the negotiations between HTC e and Google.
Everything seems in order, a normal operation for the sector, were it not for the news today that HTC is suing Apple precisely because of those specific patents.
In other words: they stocked up on ammunition before entering the field and starting the battle. And it’s as if, indirectly, Google were also on HTC’s side.
It is true, however, that given the acquisition of Motorola by Google, the number of potentially infringing patents becomes quite substantial: over 17,000, not counting those already owned by Google, developed internally.
In this case, HTC accuses Apple of infringing four patents originally held by Motorola, three by Openwave Systems and two by Palm.
Although the claims HTC will make to the Delaware court are not yet known, it is possible to discuss the alleged infringements: technologies for wireless software updates, those for storing user data on devices, those for connecting radio modems to specific software, and technologies for data transfer between chips and microprocessors.
A wide range of features that HTC available on iCloud, iTunes, Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod: in a word, on all Apple products.
Those more deeply involved in the sector, far from considering the issue genuinely legal and seriously based on patents, think that these strategic moves hide nothing more than an internal struggle for the latest app: it’s as if, in reality, a challenge between Apple and the Android system (a product of Google) were being consumed, although it is not evident and direct but through an “interposed person.”