VIA announced a lawsuit against Apple last week, claiming that the company has infringed three patents. VIA seeks the ban of the sale of Apple products, including the iPod, iPhone and iPad. It sounds far fetched, but what if it actually happened? After all, Apple was successful in banning Samsung Galaxy Pad sales in Germany recently.
Market watchers are tipping that VIA actually has a strong case against Apple. Digitimes reports " ... that VIA Technologies has a good chance of winning its recently filed patent lawsuit against Apple."
The idea that a US district court would actually legally ban the sale of Apple's flagship products is rather eye-opening. What is more likely is that if Apple's lawyers became convinced that a guilty verdict was inevitable, a very costly deal would be made with VIA behind closed doors.
The CEO of VIA is the husband of the owner of HTC, a smartphone company that has been sued many times over by Apple ... not that I'm suggesting this is some sort of revenge lawsuit, especially since most analysts agree that VIA has a legitimate and strong case ... it's just an interesting observation.
Market watchers are tipping that VIA actually has a strong case against Apple. Digitimes reports " ... that VIA Technologies has a good chance of winning its recently filed patent lawsuit against Apple."
The idea that a US district court would actually legally ban the sale of Apple's flagship products is rather eye-opening. What is more likely is that if Apple's lawyers became convinced that a guilty verdict was inevitable, a very costly deal would be made with VIA behind closed doors.
The CEO of VIA is the husband of the owner of HTC, a smartphone company that has been sued many times over by Apple ... not that I'm suggesting this is some sort of revenge lawsuit, especially since most analysts agree that VIA has a legitimate and strong case ... it's just an interesting observation.
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