Eight Questions About Apple's Suit Against HTC
03.03.10
Of other shoes are poised to drop all over Silicon Valley and Asia. Here are some questions I'm scratching my head over tonight. I suspect some people will maintain that the answers are obvious, but they're not (yet) obvious to me...
1. If Apple wins, what does it mean for other companies' phones? Could rival makers artfully work around Apple patents and produce handsets that tippy-toe up to the legal line without crossing it? Or would there be a bunch of cool features that every other manufacturer would have to abandon?
2. What does Apple want? The lawsuit says it wants the court to tell HTC to stop making phones that infringe on Apple patents, and to fork over a wad of cash to Apple of unspecified size. But would Apple be equally happy collecting a royalty on every HTC phone and/or setting up some sort of patent cross-licensing agreement? Does it plan to sue every company on the planet that has anything to do with a phone that sports any feature outlined in an Apple patent?
Source: PC World