Apple Goes Offensive On Patents: Sues HTC

from the no-smartphones-at-all dept

Well, well, well. We've discussed recently how it seemed effectively impossible for any smartphone maker to survive the patent gantlet, as there are so many patents held by so many different parties, and they all seem to have recently started suing each other. The latest, sent in by a whole bunch of you (though Phillip was first) is that Apple is suing HTC, again both in the courts and using the ITC loophole. What's interesting here is that, despite Apple playing up the fact that it had over 200 patents on the iPhone, for the most part, it hadn't gone on the offensive with them. The recent patent lawsuits that Apple has been involved in have all been on the defensive side -- which we thought was a smart move for Apple. The fact that it's now going on the offensive on patents is unfortunate. It's usually a sign that a company is worried that it can't keep up with the competition.
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  1. icon
    :Lobo Santo (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 1:49pm

    My gloves are faster...

    "gantlet"?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  2. identicon
    cake, 2 Mar 2010 @ 1:51pm

    and my support for apple is done

    I don't like many things about apple's locked down system, but at least they had appeared to be innovating somewhat every year, without pulling this bs. This to me means they are now wasting money litigating instead of making the next step.

    the iphone is going on ebay, goodbye at&t, hello nexus one. Seems like the only way to get the point across, even it is one user at a time.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  3. identicon
    Bazooka Balls, 2 Mar 2010 @ 1:58pm

    *sigh*

    That really pisses me off. I'm currently working on my second iPhone/iTouch game, I really enjoy developing for the platform, and I won't stop because it can make me money. But damn, when will these stupid patent and copyright lawsuits stop. What a crock of shit.

    Let's just stymie competition more, shall we?

    Bullshit.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  4. icon
    Ima Fish (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 2:00pm

    According to Slashdot, Steve Jobs was quoted as saying,
    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, employees, agents, shall I say, operatives of HTC broke into Apple's offices and stole ideas. Those dastardly bastards deserve to be sued!

    link to this | view in thread ]

  5. icon
    Designerfx (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 2:03pm

    battle of the titans

    maybe it will take a high profile case where HTC doesn't buckle and says screw it we're taking you to the supremes, that it will get this turned around.

    Until then, all innovation continues to take a loss for being successful

    link to this | view in thread ]

  6. icon
    Mike Masnick (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 2:07pm

    Re: My gloves are faster...

    "gantlet"?

    Yup. Last time I wrote "gauntlet" and I was corrected. Turns out "gantlet" is the proper word, though these days gauntlet is commonly used.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  7. icon
    Phillip (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 2:09pm

    hey nexus one whats up

    I was pretty sure I was going to switch to t-mobile to get away from AT&T network and apple's random app store decisions, but this seals it.

    I doubt I'll even wait for my contract to be over...

    link to this | view in thread ]

  8. icon
    Designerfx (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 2:14pm

    Re: hey nexus one whats up

    if you do tmobile, be sure to sign up with freelancer's union (online, free). = 10% off of your monthly and enterprise deals on phone prices.

    PS: this bears mentioning. HTC controls a huge part of all electronics made worldwide. As much as panasonic, really.

    HTC could shut out apple from being able to make anything apple if they felt like it, so this is a bad bad apple move.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  9. icon
    Phillip (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 2:16pm

    Re: Re: hey nexus one whats up

    cool thanks for the heads up.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  10. icon
    Phillip (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 2:16pm

    Re: Re: hey nexus one whats up

    cool thanks for the heads up.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  11. identicon
    Ryan, 2 Mar 2010 @ 2:20pm

    Re: Re: My gloves are faster...

    per dictionary.com:

    Word History: The spelling gauntlet is acceptable for both gauntlet meaning "glove" or "challenge" and gauntlet meaning "a form of punishment in which lines of men beat a person forced to run between them"; but this has not always been the case. The story of the gauntlet used in to throw down the gauntlet is linguistically unexciting: it comes from the Old French word gantelet, a diminutive of gant, "glove." From the time of its appearance in Middle English (in a work composed in 1449), the word has been spelled with an au as well as an a, still a possible spelling. But the gauntlet used in to run the gauntlet is an alteration of the earlier English form gantlope, which came from the Swedish word gatlopp, a compound of gata, "lane," and lopp, "course." The earliest recorded form of the English word, found in 1646, is gantelope, showing that alteration of the Swedish word had already occurred. The English word was then influenced by the spelling of the word gauntlet, "glove," and in 1676 we find the first recorded instance of the spelling gauntlet for this word, although gantelope is found as late as 1836. From then on spellings with au and a are both found, but the au seems to have won out.

    I don't see anything about gauntlet ever being "improper". Even so, anyone who would "correct" the spelling of gauntlet is just about the most anal individual I have ever heard of.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  12. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 2 Mar 2010 @ 2:29pm

    but the au seems to have won out

    To the point that I had never seen it spelled with only an "a" until this article

    link to this | view in thread ]

  13. icon
    Dark Helmet (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 2:33pm

    Re: *sigh*

    When are they going to figure out how to put ScummVM for Android 2.0? The idea of playing Sam And Max on my phone on the El is absolutely tasty....

    link to this | view in thread ]

  14. identicon
    Steve Jobs, 2 Mar 2010 @ 2:36pm

    Apple is for fascists

    .

    link to this | view in thread ]

  15. identicon
    Panoptes, 2 Mar 2010 @ 2:39pm

    Re: Re: My gloves are faster...

    Gauntlet is British English. Gantlet is the US spelling.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  16. icon
    :Lobo Santo (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 2:39pm

    Re: Re: Re: My gloves are faster...

    I calls 'em as I sees 'em.

    Thanx though, I learned something new today.
    ; P

    link to this | view in thread ]

  17. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 2 Mar 2010 @ 2:41pm

    I think you're missing the real story

    Isn't the real story here that HTC is a phone that runs on Google's Android platform? The ITC complaint specifically mentions "Android." Is this the long-awaited Apple vs. Google black-hat vs. white-hat war? A shot across the bow, or Patentageddon?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  18. identicon
    Richard, 2 Mar 2010 @ 2:44pm

    Apple fan boys

    I've already heard the pro Apple drones going on about how Apple has no choice but to protect their IP from foreign interests. No wonder the citizens of the world are in so much trouble. They just do what their told and don't even know what questions to ask if they ever wanted to question the omnipotent wisdom of their respective dear leader.

    This sorta underscores the whole "the people need handlers" argument :(

    link to this | view in thread ]

  19. icon
    mjb5406 (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 2:50pm

    As reported by other sources, this seems like a preemptive strike against Google rather than against HTC. Right now, HTC is the single largest vendor of Android-based devices, so I guess it makes sense... but to paraphrase Steve Jobs, "Competition is great, unless we have competition". Another site posted the complaint, and some of the claims are just plain stupid, like claiming that there is an infringement over how you unlock a phone using a sliding button.

    Apple refused to use its cash reserves to give shareholders a dividend, so I guess Jobs decided to piss it away on lawyers and lawsuits instead. Yes, the iPhone is innovative, a great product, but using the courts to insure that nobody else can compete with you is childish.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  20. icon
    Skeptical Cynic (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 2:54pm

    It is just dealing with reality.

    Sorry to say it but in the U.S. it simply sue or be sued. Very sad state of affairs.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  21. icon
    Richard Corsale (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 2:55pm

    Read this in a post by DaemonBlood over at ArsTechnica
    ------------------------------------------------
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK7TQV FS

    To quote Steve Jobs: "I've been shameless about stealing good ideas" and "They showed me really, three things, but I was so blinded by the first one that I didn't see the first two. One of the things they showed me was Object Oriented Programming".

    So first he steals the idea, then he patents it.. thats innovation for ya!

    link to this | view in thread ]

  22. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 2 Mar 2010 @ 3:00pm

    Re: Re: My gloves are faster...

    The correct word is "gauntlet" when used to describe the actions of people attempting to harm someone travelling a path.

    Gantlet is a variant of gauntlet, seen extremely occasionally, but gauntlet and gantlet finished duking it out more than a century ago. The battle began in 1676, but was all over by the early 1800's, when the spelling was pretty much gauntlet.

    On the other hand, a gantlet is a parallel set of railroad tracks that travel the same path without connecting or a convergence of lines.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  23. icon
    Alan Gerow (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 3:04pm

    Re:

    Now Apple will never be able to use those ideas again because HTC has them.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  24. icon
    napacab (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 3:06pm

    How many lawyers does it take to invent something useful?

    There aren't enough of them.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  25. icon
    Alan Gerow (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 3:10pm

    Re:

    "the iPhone is innovative"

    Just to point out a difference (and not to assume you're unaware of it), the iPhone was innovative but not inventive. While Apple changed the way people use their phones, it didn't necessarily do anything to redefine what a phone is.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  26. identicon
    ernestinis, 2 Mar 2010 @ 3:27pm

    Nuclear Patent War

    These cases with Apple/Nokia/HTC.
    Will it become Great Patent Wall of USA for Electronics/Software. So that non Apple production will be available only in black market ?

    Or patents for software will be canceled in US ?

    How does it influence Europe ?
    Is it only civil war in US ?
    Or 1st Patent World War ?


    Any ideas ?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  27. icon
    Dave (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 3:38pm

    Behind the lawsuit

    The more I look at this lawsuit, the more I think Apple is telling the world, "The Nexus One is better than the iPhone, and we can't compete with it, so we're going to make it more expensive for them to sell their product, rather than try to improve our own product."

    And that's when things start going downhill. IMHO, Apple would have been better off using its $40B cash reserves to get out of its exclusivity deal with AT&T and introducing CDMA/EVDO iPhones.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  28. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 2 Mar 2010 @ 3:41pm

    I can understand Apple's point

    After all, the invented cell phones, color displays, drag and drop use interfaces, operating systems, and the internet (contrary to the popular Al Gore misquote).

    They also invented mach kernel's, unix, and a GUI over top of it.

    Is there nothing people won't steal from Apple?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  29. identicon
    DH's love child, 2 Mar 2010 @ 3:55pm

    Re: I can understand Apple's point

    you forgot the mouse...

    link to this | view in thread ]

  30. icon
    Brad Hubbard (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 4:08pm

    Re: Behind the lawsuit

    And that's really the heart of it, right? When Apple thought the iPhone was at the forefront of technology, they didn't bother with the "imitators". Now that they're watching their market evaporate as quickly as it built up, and at the same time unable to make the cap-ex investment to stay ahead without abandoning tens of millions of users, they're trying to stop other companies from getting ahead.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  31. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 2 Mar 2010 @ 4:12pm

    Re:

    I wonder if Apple filed a theft report with the police. "Our ideas have all vanished!"

    link to this | view in thread ]

  32. identicon
    Nate, 2 Mar 2010 @ 4:13pm

    I've only recently begun to dive into software programming, myself, but these patents all still read to me like, "A method for arranging words, such as to form sentences and a coherent storyline."

    There's a line, for sure, but most of these software patents make the plaintiff look petty, and I was actually beginning to thaw to the idea of purchasing a Mac or a new iPhone/iPad. I've actually been turned off to it, now.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  33. identicon
    Michial Thompson, 2 Mar 2010 @ 4:16pm

    Re: Re:

    What Apple did with the iPhone was really nothing spectacular, they EXPANDED one of their products (iPod) by adding basic cell phone functionality...

    The inventive aspect of what they did was combining three seperate and unrelated devices into one device.

    But even that could be argued because honestly the iPhones invention was destined to happen by someone. Combining the cell phone with the PDA and a music device, and a pager was destined to happen because every geek out there was running out of room on their belts and suspenders to dangle all these devices.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  34. icon
    Un (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 4:18pm

    Re: Re: I can understand Apple's point

    Nope, mouse goes to Stanford University's research institute. Doug Englebart to be specific. Actually most of the items in #28 were also SRI and Xerox PARC. I think you'd enjoy this read (the book, not the tiny stub article):

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Dormouse_Said

    For the most part, we have hallucinogens to thank for much of the work in graphical user interfaces.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  35. identicon
    Nate, 2 Mar 2010 @ 4:34pm

    Re:

    Looks like that video's down, bro... :-/

    link to this | view in thread ]

  36. identicon
    Nate, 2 Mar 2010 @ 4:37pm

    Re: Re: Re: I can understand Apple's point

    link to this | view in thread ]

  37. identicon
    Any Mouse, 2 Mar 2010 @ 4:57pm

    Re: Re: Re: My gloves are faster...

    Funny, you spell it 'gantlet' on any spelling test in the US and it'll be marked wrong.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  38. icon
    Seumas Hyslop (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 5:10pm

    Abuse of patents - if they're that worried, why not go after Palm?

    This is one of those perfect examples of where the patent system is completely wrong - scientific and technological processes being patented.

    Examples of this include Chiron Corporation and the 100 patents that they own on the Hepatitis C Virus, as they were able to be the first to describe a novel method of isolating the virus. They've since been able to abuse this power in preventing other companies from researching into the virus, and at one time even prevented the UK National Health Service from buying a Hepatitis C testing kit from Murex Corporation, despite the fact that Chiron had not released their own testing kit. Essentially, they were preventing anyone getting tested for Hepatitis C. That's just abominable, and it's a corporation that kills people.

    Amazon's 1-click is another great example of patents gone horribly wrong.

    Now this - a look at Apple's patent filings include:

    • The '453 Patent, entitled "Conserving Power By Reducing Voltage Supplied To An Instruction-Processing Portion Of A Processor," was duly and legally issued on June 3, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of the '453 Patent is attached hereto as Exhibit H.

    • The '949 Patent, entitled "Touch Screen Device, Method, And Graphical User Interface For Determining Commands By Applying Heuristics," was duly and legally issued on January 20, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of the '949 Patent is attached hereto as Exhibit B.

    It's ridiculous. They're trying to own power management on mobile devices - and they're trying to prevent multitouch on other devices. Multitouch is functionality that's given to the HTC devices by Google/Open Handset Alliance and Android, not developed by HTC. Apple are trying to sue Google without suing Google - or try and scare others from joining the Open Handset Alliance.

    I note that they haven't sued Palm at all. Might have something to do with all those patents Palm has that could cause the iPhone a lot of problems, right?

    I'm finding this interesting, though. Something has Apple spooked about HTC and Android. They're feeling threatened.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  39. identicon
    bigpicture, 2 Mar 2010 @ 5:37pm

    Competitive Edge

    Many years ago I took a customer service course put on by IBM. The gist of the content was that in todays business environment it is not possible to maintain a competitive lead on business competitors, in product technology or pricing for any significant period of time.

    So the only way to distinguish your product from the competition was to "delight your customers" with the supporting services. There was nothing covered about suing the competition over patents by a company that holds probably the largest patent portfolio in the world. They also donated a lot of patents to the open source community of which Linux/Android is a member.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  40. icon
    Allen (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 5:41pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    Wow. I'm not sure where you live Michial but here in Hong Kong apple were far from the first to release a phone/pda/mp3 player combo and your most basic GSM handset had pager functionality much earlier than that.

    Apple were the first to release a phone with a multitouch interface, nothing more or less. They didnt invent it but innovation is in the execution right? And now they want to execute HTC...

    link to this | view in thread ]

  41. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 2 Mar 2010 @ 6:40pm

    Re: Re: *sigh*

    "They" is me ;)
    I am working on a ScummVM port to Android 2.0, but my spare time has been even more limited than usual recently...

    link to this | view in thread ]

  42. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 2 Mar 2010 @ 7:25pm

    Re: Abuse of patents - if they're that worried, why not go after Palm?

    WE can only hope that Palm it waiting to step in and give the finishing blow to Apple.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  43. identicon
    angry dude, 2 Mar 2010 @ 7:45pm

    mudaki

    thoughtful comments...

    debily, blya

    link to this | view in thread ]

  44. icon
    Joe Perry (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 7:49pm

    I already didn't like Apple, this just pushed it farther. Apple's just getting scared of the competition. It used to be a joke that no one could stand up to the iPhone, now people are and they don't want to compete. It's funny, because recently I've seen a lot of television shows and movies where the phones they're using are HTC phones that run Android. Apple's losing their hold on consumers and media. Plus some of the patents they hold are absolutely ridiculous and in no way promote progress, they only serve to limit functionality of other phones so that all the other phones are useless compared to the iPhone, enabling Apple to have a monopoly.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  45. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 2 Mar 2010 @ 7:49pm

    Re: Re: Abuse of patents - if they're that worried, why not go after Palm?

    Apple
    Jobs
    Blow
    Palm

    I think there's a joke in there somewhere.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  46. icon
    Jamie Carl (profile), 2 Mar 2010 @ 11:05pm

    I think it's funny that they are suing over the pinch zoom functionality that is a function of the Android OS, not the hardware, which is basically just a capacitive touch display. As someone has already said, they are trying to sue Google without suing Google. Probably because they know Google would probably eat them alive.

    Is the iPhone losing market share or something? ;)

    In the end, the lawyers win yet again.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  47. icon
    Ronald J Riley (profile), 3 Mar 2010 @ 3:23am

    Apple - media hype innovator

    For once Mike Masnick has something right. Apple cannot keep up. They get lots of patents but for the most part they are pretty narrow. It is a fact that the most important inventions come from outside Apple.

    Apple being rather arrogant takes those inventions and combines them in their products, bagging about being innovators.

    I have tried and rejected a number of Apple products because they are crippled by design. Apple's greed and short term mindset makes their products inferior to others. HTC produces better phones than Apple.

    This is why Apple is a member of the Coalition for Patent Piracy & Fairness. They innovate with unauthorized use of others inventions but cannot themselves produce the really important inventions.

    What amazes me is how many people buy Apples innovative media propaganda.


    Ronald J. Riley,


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    link to this | view in thread ]

  48. identicon
    Hmm, 3 Mar 2010 @ 4:22am

    Re: Re: My gloves are faster...

    Is that some kind of Americanism?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  49. icon
    Ima Fish (profile), 3 Mar 2010 @ 5:12am

    Re: Re:

    "Our ideas have all vanished!"

    Heck, that's probably what happened to Microsoft!

    link to this | view in thread ]

  50. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 3 Mar 2010 @ 5:14am

    Re: Re: Re:

    That was funny!

    link to this | view in thread ]

  51. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 3 Mar 2010 @ 5:21am

    Re: Apple - media hype innovator

    Ronald J. Riley -> unable to say anything without a derogatory comment

    link to this | view in thread ]

  52. icon
    Dark Helmet (profile), 3 Mar 2010 @ 5:41am

    Re: Re: Re: *sigh*

    Well hurry up dammit! And tell me how/where I can support the work...

    link to this | view in thread ]

  53. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 3 Mar 2010 @ 7:07am

    Re: Re: Re:

    My T-mobile Dash (made by HTC, of course) did everything the iphone did and more, long before there WAS an iphone, with the exception of having a touch interface (it had a full keyboard and d-pad). Running Windows Mobile, it was a PDA, played music (and could even use .mp3's as ringtones, as well as supported stereo bluetooth/A2DP) and had built-in WiFi. Apple's version of a touch interface was great, but NOTHING on the iphone was groundbreaking.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  54. icon
    Xanthir, FCD (profile), 3 Mar 2010 @ 7:13am

    Re: Re: Re: My gloves are faster...

    Gauntlet is British English. Gantlet is the US spelling.
    No, no it's not. It *might* be some bizarre regional spelling somewhere in the US, but "gauntlet" is definitely still the way to spell it. I've never seen "gantlet" in my entire life.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  55. identicon
    Ron, 3 Mar 2010 @ 7:33am

    Re: Apple - media hype innovator

    You forgot one;

    President - Pompous douche bag club.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  56. icon
    setaside (profile), 3 Mar 2010 @ 8:04am

    Re: Re: Re:

    The inventive aspect of what they did was combining three seperate and unrelated devices into one device.

    Palm and ... Windows Mobile ... have been able to do what the iPhone does for far longer than the iPhone has been out. I'd hardly call apple inventive in this regard. What they did, and did well I will readily admit, was simplify the whole interface to the point that a MASSIVE number of users could pick one up and figure out how to use it. An evolution of an existing species to better adapt to the current climate.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  57. icon
    Derek Kerton (profile), 3 Mar 2010 @ 4:44pm

    Re: Re: Re: *sigh*

    Do you mean that "'They' is me" in the general sense, as in, you are responsible for "they say pregnant women shouldn't go in spas", or "they say if you swallow chewing gum, it stays in your belly for seven years".

    If so, @$@#$ you, you don't know @#$@#.

    Or do you mean "'They' is me" in a specific case, as in you develop ScummVM, in which case you should code on!?

    Just checking.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  58. icon
    Derek Kerton (profile), 3 Mar 2010 @ 4:49pm

    Re: Re: hey nexus one whats up

    "HTC could shut out apple from being able to make anything apple if they felt like it"

    What? How? You don't think there are other hardware makers out there? Foxconnn comes to mind.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  59. icon
    Alan Gerow (profile), 5 Mar 2010 @ 2:44pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    "The inventive aspect of what they did was combining three seperate and unrelated devices into one device."

    Taking three already invented technologies, and combining them into one is innovation.

    The iPhone did nothing specifically new. It just did it in an easier to use way.

    link to this | view in thread ]

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  61. identicon
    Ellison, 6 Jun 2010 @ 6:34am

    Re: Re: My gloves are faster...

    Yes, comes the the french "gant" for glove.

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