It seems the technological universe has settled down … for now. Apple’s aggressive move for copyright infringement has quietly receded into the background in concern to Taiwan-based HTC.
The parties have entered a 10-year license agreement following the legal proceedings that took place earlier this year, a deal that will cover all currently existing and future patents through each respective party. The company reports they are ‘pleased’ to finally put the legal disagreement behind them.
American giant, Apple, made waves this year in several cases of reported copyright infringement – a move that cast an unusually unfavorable public opinion of the brand since the passing of CEO, Steve Jobs. Much of the legal action taken was for the purpose of raising cost of Google’s currently free to use operating system already in place.
Filling some significant shoes, current CEO Tim Cook remarked he was not in favored of continued litigation, a notion viewed with a certain cadence of understandable parody. For now, the waters of handheld device patents have calmed but questions concerning how long such tranquility will last are ever present – shutting the door on what Jobs described as a ‘thermonuclear’ war against Android.
Whether additional platforms utilizing Android will follow suit with HTC is yet to be determined, raising the very real possibility of further legal proceedings for Apple as they fight to maintain their presence in the mobile community as a whole.