People at HTC yesterday woke up to some rather unpleasant news, Apple filed a lawsuit against them over alleged infringement of 20-odd patents. Some of the patents are related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture and hardware, while others have nothing to do with the iPhone and go as far back as 1995. In some cases the patents are so broad they could sue everybody and their mothers, and it’s mind blowing how the U.S. Patent Office even granted them in the first place. Take for example patent #7,657,849: “Unlocking A Device By Performing Gestures On An Unlock Image”. Yes, sliding your finger across a phone to unlock it is patented. Fun fact: That patent was just granted February 2, apparently for the sole purpose of being used in this lawsuit. I won’t go into detail about each patent ’cause most of them get very technical/boring very quickly, but you can read the whole document here if you’re into that kind of thing. Also, the guys over at Engadget did a breakdown of what each patent means, and they came to the same conclusion I did: This lawsuit is all about crushing Android.
Steve Jobs had something to say about this whole ordeal:
“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”
Apparently during Jobs’ liver transplant they went ahead and replaced his brains also while they were at it, ’cause 1996 Steve Jobs has a completely different opinion on these issues.
http://www.droiddog.com/android-blog/2010/03/apple-feels-androids-heat-goes-after-htc/
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