ITC finds HTC guilty of 2 Apple patents

[saibot]

I don't even get how these 2 patents apply to Android. Sure very loosely, but they are very broad descriptions and we've seen other products that meet the same descriptions since long before an iphone.

United States Patent: 5946647

System and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data
Filed: February 1, 1996

United States Patent: 6343263

Real-time signal processing system for serially transmitted data
Filed: August 2, 1994

It's obvious this attack on HTC is due to the huge success of Android. There was obviously nothing stolen from the iphone. I didn't think it would actually happen, perhaps just wishful thinking, but Apple and Microsoft managed to screw the competition. If they can do that then we all lost. Even iphone users. We are losing our choice as consumers.