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Apple opened yesterday a patent war against HTC. The company headed by Steve Jobs filed suit in a U.S. court against the handset maker HTC, accusing him of violating at least 20 of its patents on the iPhone and called terminal block imports of this company in the U.S. , according to Bloomberg. These patents are related to the phones interface, architecture and hardware.

In an official statement, the company put the apple in the mouth of Jobs harsh words: “We could continue to sit and watch our competitors stealing and patenting our inventions, or could do something. We decided to do something.” The manager added that Apple believes that competition is healthy, “but competitors should create their own original technology and not to steal ours.”

From HTC declined comment. A Taiwanese company spokeswoman, Linda Mills, said they have heard of the news media use until they have more precise information will not comment. The point is that this battle against Apple has other victims HTC, Google and Microsoft. Many analysts interpreted that this was the crux of the matter. The Asian firm, the world’s fourth largest market for smartphones (with a share of 6.9%) behind Nokia, RIM and Apple (16.1%), manufactures its terminals with operating systems of both tech giants The Android and Windows Mobile, respectively. It is also the first handset manufacturer to Google, the Nexus One, launched in January. Unlock Iphone 3Gs Today

Apple, which generates 30% of revenues (13,000 million) with the iPhone and related services, and claims to have reinvented the mobile phone business with the launch of iPhone in 2007 and its applications store a year later, also maintains patent war with Nokia. Both have accused each other of having plagiarized technology in their phones.

No truce. All are struggling to gain share in a market, the smart phones, which Gartner says will grow 46% this year while the global handset market will grow by 11-13%.

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