As brought to us by Reuters (link), Taiwan's Elan is suing Apple over infringement of two patents, both pertaining to the use of a touch screen to detect the position of fingers, and multitouch.
This is particularly amusing because it happens in the wake of the recent suit by Apple against Taiwan's HTC for infringement of 20 patents, including multitouch (link). We know that Nokia has also filed a suit against Apple with Apple countersuing.
This is just another example of Apple trying to say that they've innovated everything, which I'll show more examples of in a future post.
We all know what's really motivating the HTC suit. If it was really about Multitouch, Apple would have sued Palm as well, but there are two reasons they haven't. 1. Palm owns patents on so many things, including such basic things as devices that have calendars and alert you with new notifications if there are events. 2. Apple is suing Google through HTC. By taking out a less defended outlet for Android, Apple doesn't have take on Google directly.
Let's hope the ITC listens to reason and drops HTC's complaint regarding ridiculously broad patents that cover almost all portable electronic devices.
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