It's not being the best summer they remember in Cupertino. Not only is it the first without a state-of-the-art iPhone since 2007, but Apple's news is also written in judicial code.
The apple firm's attempts to prevent the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and its open confrontation with the Korean manufacturer are joined by various causes related to the unauthorized use of patents; causes that flirt in both directions.
The last of the cross accusations has rained down on him, and it comes from Taiwan. It has been HTC who has filed a lawsuit before the United States International Trade Commission and the Delaware court, due to the unauthorized use of three patents registered by the Asian firm between 2008 and 2010, according to Reuters.
These patents would be related to the use of Wi-Fi wireless connection technology, and the alleged violations of which Apple is accused would have to be compensated with the payment for the use that those of Cupertino would be making, according to the Taiwanese firm.
Remember that this is not the first time that HTC and Apple have legal disagreements. In 2010, the Cupertino people indicted the Taiwanese company for the use of 20 patents registered by Apple.
At that time, the Californian firm ordered HTC stating that "our competitors should create their own original technology. " What a face can now be left to the boys of the bitten apple if it is determined that there has been a verifiable infraction in this case.
