1. PATENT WARS

2. What is a patent? a form of intellectual property consists of exclusive right assigned to the inventor required one of more claims defining the invention To prevent others from making, selling, or distributing the invention without permission What is the point?

3. Apple vs Android Mobile Steve Jobs' stated: "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong... I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."

4. Apple vs HTC Sued HTC for 20 patents infringement Patent #7,362,331Patent #7,362,331: Time-Based, Non-Constant Translation Of User Interface Objects Between States Patent #7,479,949Patent #7,479,949: Touch Screen Device, Method, And Graphical User Interface For Determining Commands By Applying Heuristics Patent #7,657,849Patent #7,657,849: Unlocking A Device By Performing Gestures On An Unlock Image Patent #7,469,381Patent #7,469,381: List Scrolling And Document Translation, Scaling, And Rotation On A Touch-Screen Display Patent #5,920,726Patent #5,920,726: System And Method For Managing Power Conditions Within A Digital Camera Device Patent #7,633,076Patent #7,633,076: Automated Response To And Sensing Of User Activity In Portable Devices Patent #5,848,105Patent #5,848,105: GMSK Signal Processors For Improved Communications Capacity And Quality

5. Patent #7,383,453Patent #7,383,453: Conserving Power By Reducing Voltage Supplied To An Instruction-Processing Portion Of A Processor Patent #5,455,599Patent #5,455,599: Object-Oriented Graphic System Patent #6,424,354Patent #6,424,354: Object-Oriented Event Notification System With Listener Registration Of Both Interests And Methods Patent #5,481,721Patent #5,481,721: Method for providing automatic and dynamic translation of object oriented programming language-based message passing into operation system message passing using proxy objects Patents #5,519,867 and #6,275,983: Object Oriented Multitasking System and Object-Oriented Operating System #5,519,867#6,275,983 Patent #5,566,337Patent #5,566,337: Method and apparatus for distributing events in an operating system Patent #5,929,852Patent #5,929,852: Encapsulated network entity reference of a network component system Patent 5,946,647Patent 5,946,647: System and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data Patent #5,969,705Patent #5,969,705: Message protocol for controlling a user interface from an inactive application program Patent #6,343,263Patent #6,343,263: Real-time signal processing system for serially transmitted data Patent #5,915,131Patent #5,915,131: Method and apparatus for handling I/O requests utilizing separate programming interfaces to access separate I/O service Patent #RE39,486Patent #RE39,486: Extensible, replaceable network component system http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-vs-htc-a-patent-breakdown/

6. US International Trade Commission ruled in favor of Apple: Patent 5,946,647Patent 5,946,647: System and method for performing an action on a structure in computer- generated data Who won? Small victory for Apple

7. To Sum it Up

8. The Consequences? As a result, any HTC phones with this technology is banned from importing into US starting April 19th, 2012

9. What's Apple Next Move?