HTC files counterclaims against Apple with patents from HP

HTC has filed counterclaims against Apple over two patents the Taiwanese handset maker recently acquired from Hewlett-Packard to apparently beef up its legal muscle in its patent fight with the iPhone maker.

HTC filed its two patent infringement counterclaims today in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, alleging that a wide array of Apple products infringe on patents related to network services and management that HTC acquired in December from HP.

The two patents asserted in HTC's counterclaims, according to FOSS Patents:

• U.S. Patent No. 7,571,221 for "installation of network services in an embedded network server"
  

  HTC claims that Apple is infringing on this patent, which HP applied for in 2002, with devices "including but not limited to personal computers (such as the Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, Mac Mini), mobile communications devices (such as the iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S), and mobile computing devices (such as the iPod Touch, iPad, iPad 2, the new iPad)".

  
  


• U.S. Patent No. 7,120,684 for a "method and system for central management of a computer network"
  

  HP acquired this patent ... [Read more]