IMPORTANT QUESTION: People browsing in a Samsung store in Singapore in this Sept 4, 2012 file photo. The ending of Apple's and HTC worldwide legal patent battles has left an important question unanswered of whether the deal covers some of the patents involved in Samsung's litigation with Apple. - Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO: When Apple Inc and HTC Corp ended their worldwide legal battles with a 10-year patent licensing agreement, they declined to answer a critical question: Whether all of Apple’s patents were covered by the deal.
It’s an enormously important issue for the broader smartphone patent wars. If all the Apple patents are included — including the “user experience” patents that the company has previously insisted it would not license — it could undermine the iPhone makers efforts to permanently ban the sale of products that copy its technology.
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