Apple loses to HTC in patent battle
― Apple has lost a key patent battle against smartphone rival HTC in the London's High Court, meaning that the Silicon Valley company cannot ban certain of the Taiwanese firm’s products in Britain. ∙ As rumours intensified that Apple is about to launch a cut-price version of its iPad to grab even more of the tablet market, HTC won what one independent lawyer called a "significant" victory after the high court invalidated a patent covering the "slide to unlock" method used to access the main [...].
