The War of Lawsuits among Phone Giants

Apple, creator of the best-selling iPhone, has filed a lawsuit against HTC, maker of the Nexus One smartphone from Google, accusing HTC of infringement of 20 iPhone patents."We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it," Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said in a statement. Google's NexusOne smartphone runs on Google Inc.'s Android operating system, which is becoming a threat against iPhone. I reckon that Apple are suing HTC over their illicit borrowing of their multitouch technology which the iPhone is currently having. In this time and age, touchphones are definitely all around us. How could Apple claim that this multitouch technology belongs to them with regards to the number of companies producing smartphones with this technology? Job's has expressed that competitors should create their own original technology, not steal theirs. The biggest irony of the patent statement is that Apple has never actually created a technology, they have only assembled others work into systems.Even the much applauded Mac OS is just a subset of Unix. Apple has definitely gone overboard on claiming that some patents belong to them. Technology is easily circulated in the Internet age and companies have been filing lawsuits over others for infringement of copyright. I suggest that companies purchase a patent so that they can rightfully claim it as theirs.