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To: sylvester80 who wrote (20144)	6/26/2012 1:07:09 PM
From: zax	Respond to of 32680

Apple accuses HTC of dodging ITC injunction and misleading U.S. Customs officials By: Dan Graziano \| Jun 26th, 2012 at 12:15PM bgr.com Apple’s lengthy patent litigation paid off last month after the International Trade Commission delayed the launches of HTC’s flagship One X and EVO 4G LTE smartphones. The Taiwanese manufacturer in December was found to have infringed upon Apple’s patent that covered a “system and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data,” and was given until April to remove the infringing feature from its imported handsets. The delay was soon resolved and within days, HTC’s smartphones were being released from Customs. Apple has now suggested to the ITC, however, that HTC may have misled U.S. Customs officials in order to dodge a possible injunction against its devices. “HTC’s misstatements here provide further support for Apple’s request for relief and temporary emergency action,” Apple wrote, per FOSS Patents. “If HTC is now telling the Commission that its Android Products contain functionality that ‘links only a single action to a detected structure,’ Apple can fairly assume that HTC told Customs the same thing, despite the incontrovertible showing in Apple’s Enforcement Complaint that HTC’s representation is wrong.” HTC has maintained its innocence and responded with its own letter to the ITC in which the company acknowledged that Google’s GMail client is one of the infringing factors, however because the software is closed-source, HTC does not have the option to tweak the code and avoid infringement. Apple countered HTC’s claim and maintained that the company is responsible for infringement on its devices even if it is not in possession of the original source code. Patent expert Florian Mueller notes that the ITC’s exclusion order is “clearly meant to stop all infringement of the ’647 patent, by any HTC products and regardless of which apps are involved,” potentially leaving the troubled smartphone vendor in serious trouble. Tags: Apple, HTC

To: sylvester80 who wrote (20144)	6/26/2012 9:55:22 PM
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“Never give a sucker an even break.” -- P.T. Barnum Orbitz shows more expensive hotel results to Mac users By Shawn Knight On June 26, 2012, 2:00 PM EST techspot.com If you are planning a vacation this year and will be using Orbitz to book accommodations, surfing from a PC instead of a Mac could save you some money. The travel site has discovered through extensive data mining that Mac users typically spend as much as 30 percent more per night on hotel stays, prompting them to display higher-priced travel options for Mac users than individuals using a Windows-based computer. Executives have confirmed the tactic after first gathering hard data to confirm their intuition in October. Since then, they have been implementing changes in their search results to show higher-priced options to Mac users. Executives noted that they aren’t showing different prices for the same room to different users and furthermore, anyone can sort results by price to find the cheapest options available.

To: sylvester80 who wrote (20144)	6/26/2012 11:10:50 PM
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SAN FRANCISCO—Samsung Electronics Co. was dealt a legal blow Tuesday, when a California judge issued an injunction banning sales of the company's Galaxy Tab 10.1 touchscreen tablet at the request of Apple Inc. The preliminary injunction, which bans Samsung from making, selling the tablet, or any similar device, in the U.S., is the latest twist in the ongoing legal battle between Apple and the Korean technology giant.