Apple reached a settlement with HTC

According to reports, Apple (Apple) and China Taiwan electronics manufacturer HTC Electronics Co., Ltd. (HTC [microblogging]) recently issued a joint statement announced that the two sides reached a settlement on a global scale, undo all current patents against each other litigation, the two sides signed a 10-year validity of the patent license agreement. This is the first time Apple and Google [microblogging] Andrews (Android) smartphone manufacturer in a patent battle to reach reconciliation.

The settlement agreement covers both companies and the future holds a number of patents, although specific terms were not announced, but it means that the two sides will continue to avoid court. The executives of the two companies expressed satisfaction with the results of this reconciliation, said Apple CEO Tim Cook, Apple are very pleased to have reached a settlement with HTC, Apple will continue to focus on product innovation. HTC CEO Peter Chou said HTC resolved disputes with Apple are very satisfied, so HTC will be able to focus point shift from patent litigation to product innovation to.

Analysts believe that reconciliation is very beneficial for both companies. For HTC, it can finally freed from a patent dispute with Apple to focus on opening up the market and product research and development, you can also use Apple's many patents in order to increase the competitiveness of their products; For Apple, to launch "the patent war "has always been Apple sniper HTC the purpose of expanding the market, now the purpose has been basically reached, Apple continue to struggle not only no actual income, but also need to pay a lot of legal fees, the settlement just Apple can get away and concentrate their firepower" deal with larger rival Samsung [microblogging].

To the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) in March 2010, Apple sued HTC infringement of Apple's patents, HTC also counterclaim After several rounds of litigation, HTC successfully reduced the number of Apple's alleged infringement patents to only one Apple infringement . Analysts pointed out that the two sides have conducted several rounds of negotiations, a settlement is also reasonable, the settlement also cited the "troubles" to the other members of the Andrews camp, such as Samsung and Motorola [microblogging] movement.