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		technomancy on March 18, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HTC disagrees with Apple's actions and will fully ... Considering this: HTC is a Taiwanese company. Taiwan has sane patent laws, unlike the US. So they're unlikely to have a large arsenal of frivolous patents.

Tycho on March 19, 2010 [–]

Well, that doesn't stop them from filing with the US patent office. Here's one they did file, citing an earlier 2008 patent in Taiwan, http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0264157.html.

It appears to be a patent for a mobile phone touch-screen 'slide-to-lock' interface. Hmmm.

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