
One day after Amazon decided to play nice and agree to Apple’s new rules for its App Store, HTC, the Taiwanese smartphone maker locked in a patent battle with Apple, said it’s willing to negotiate with the iPhone maker reports Bloomberg.
“We have to sit down and figure it out,” Winston Yung, chief financial officer of the Taoyuan, Taiwan-based company, said by phone today. “We’re open to having discussions.”
On July 6 HTC announced a $300 million deal to buy S3 Graphics Co., less than a week after that company won an ITC ruling against Apple over two patents. In a July 15 initial determination, the same commission ruled in Apple’s favor on two other patents.
“We are open to all sorts of solutions, as long as the solution and the terms are fair and reasonable,” Yung said. “On and off we’ve had discussions with Apple, even before the initial determination came out.”
Apple violates two S3 Graphics patents related to compression technology, the U.S. ITC said in a July 1 notice. HTC infringes two Apple patents related to data-detection and data transmission technologies, the commission ruled July 15. Both rulings are subject to review.
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The Chinese and Koreans have no imagination. We need to boycot their smartphone and tablet copycat products.
Comment by guest — August 3, 2011 @ 11:25 AM