Apple Inc. has won a close battle against Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp. in their battle for smartphone patents after the United States International Trade Commission (US ITC) found that HTC has infringed one of the patents of Apple. The ITC ruled that HTC violated an Apple patent for a “system and method for performing an action on a structure in computer...

Apple Inc. has filed a complaint to the US International Trade Commission (ITC) asking to ban the import of Samsung Android smartphones to the US. The complaint is in response to Samsung’s request last week to ban US imports of Apple devices. Apple has previously filed a case against the Samsung Electronics Co., claiming that the Korean company copied the designs...

Samsung Electronics Co. has intensified its legal dispute with Apple Inc. over phone patents, by filing a complaint to the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) to block iPhone, iPad and iPod U.S. imports. Samsung’s complaint, number 337-2824, focuses on “mobile electronic devices, including wireless communication devices, portable music and data...