"We are not only innovative mobile technology, but we are also owners of several patents, we take the protection of U.S. and world patents very seriously."
That was the answer of HTC to the lawsuit filed by Apple for alleged patent violation in various cells.
Google, meanwhile, said that while "we are not part of this event, support our Android operating system and all who have helped us develop it."
Apple's demands fell on the Nexus Cellular One, Touch Pro, Touch Diamond, Pro2 Touch, Tilt II, Pure, Imagio, Dream / G1, 3G myTouch, Hero, HD2, and Droid Eris, almost all smartphones from HTC with Android and Windows Mobile. In the case of the latter, it refers only to include in these models DSP chips, not the operating system.
"We can sit and watch our competitors stealing our patented inventions or we can do something about it," said Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement. "So we decided to do something about it," he added. Controversy
The site Gizmodo posted a video of 1996 in which one sees a young Steve Jobs talking about the development of the industry. The images belong
a documentary called The Triumph of the nerds and you can hear the CEO of Apple quoting Pablo Picasso: "Good artists copy, great artists steal." Immediately adds that Apple "never had shame in stealing great ideas."
Gizmodo The video is used by just 40 seconds, so that the phrase could have been taken out of context. That is, Jobs was referring to concepts and not patent renewal, or the CEO of Apple in 1996 showed much less a friend of intellectual property today.
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