Yes, folks, Apple tuck your guns patent attorneys to HTC , but in reality is what they point to Android . The mobile operating system created by Google moves more pointers devices HTC , the leading manufacturer of mobile phones with Android. Looking at the text of the application and some of the patents that Apple says that infringe, is unclear about who they really are.
Because the content of most of these patents relate to software issues , more appropriate operating system hardware itself. Examples include “Unlock a device using gestures on a picture of Unlock”, “Navigating a list, and translation, scaling and rotation of document on a touch screen” or “object-oriented graphic system.”
If it is true that the iPhone was a reinvention of mobile phone concept, some of Apple’s patents are so generic that basics include a touch interface , so that any device manufacturer could touch breach them.
While Apple’s press release does not mention Google or Android, the text speaks clearly demand :
[...] Certain mobile communication devices including cell phones and smart phones, including at least those that incorporate the Android operating system (collectively, “defendants “).
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In the complaint submitted to the commission of U.S. international trade, specifically cited several of the devices HTC with Android, as Nexus One, Magic / myTouch 3G Dream/G1, Hero, and Droid Eris .
Although it may seem, I think Apple has a good chance that demand prosper , taking into account how the U.S. patent system. It is still early to tell how this will affect the development of Android, but I sincerely hope that for once the luck did not smile at Apple: I am of those who prefer an open platform closed to the solution of Steve Jobs.
This is the Patent list allegedly breached that have been revealed. Be wanting to complete the ten other 20 of the Apple speaker, who may have been included in a separate claim:
- Patent 7,362,331: “Translation based on time and not constant user interface objects between states”
- Patent 7,479,949 “touchscreen device, method, and graphical user interface to determine commands by applying heuristics”
- Patent 7,657,849: “Unlocking a device using gestures on a picture of Unlock”
- Patent 7,469,381: “Navigating a list and translation
translation, scale and rotate the document on a touch screen” - Patent 5,920,726: “System and method for managing power conditions in a digital camera device”
- Patent 7,633,076, “Automated response to and detection of user activity on portable devices”
- Patent 5,848,105, “Signal Processing GMSK to capacity and improved quality of communications”
- Patent 7,383,453: “Conservation of energy by reducing the voltage supplied to an instruction-processing portion of a processor”
- Patent 5,455,599: “System object-oriented graphic”
- Patent 6,424,354: “System Event Notification object-oriented listening record both interest and methods”
More info | TechCrunch, Mashable
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