Apple Wins Patent Case Against HTC

[Rob Williams]

Apple has secured a big win in the courts this week against HTC, with the ruling able to halt imports of HTC phones by the spring of 2012 if the offending patent violation isn't corrected. The description of the patent is a little broad, but in essence it seems to relate itself to the ability of recognizing text on a screen and then interpreting it in a useful way; eg: a phone number that becomes clickable.

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[Doomsday]

Is it just me or is Apple just Pure Evil!?!!

 

[OriginalJoeCool]

Maybe not evil. Soulless?

Anyway, the Skype plugin for Firefox/Chome/etc does this with phone numbers. Is it in violation of the patent, too?

 

[Rob Williams]

Anyway, the Skype plugin for Firefox/Chome/etc does this with phone numbers. Is it in violation of the patent, too?

The number of examples that could potentially violate this patent is unfathomable. Software of all stripes have been doing things like this patent describes forever, long before the patent even came to be.