Even hough HTC is directly targeted by the complaint of Apple accusing them of violating 20 of their patents, Google is also targeted via the devices that use Android and especially Nexus One manufactured by HTC. The two companies reacted to the announcement by Apple.
- HTC announced or rather declared to the Taiwan stock exchange that the company has for last 13 years been innovative in the field of mobile telephony, holding many patents and that they were going to defend themselves against the charges of Apple. They insisted on the fact that they had developed the interface "Sense HTC" in-house and of course without copying Apple. Note that the fact of not being inspired by another does not mean that one cannot violate a software patent. The latter describe concepts vague enough that they can be found by chance or even that they used them for the first time while others had the idea to patent them.
- Google also reacted at the minimum probably not antagonize Apple too much while supporting HTC:
We are not recipient in this suite. However, we respond to defend our operating system Android and the partners who helped us to develop it.
Google will watch and they will not hesitate to defend HTC if the need arises, probably by threatening Apple in one way or another.
