Report: New iPhone Components Shipped | Apple Sued Over Multi-Touch
By SRASC at 8 April, 2009, 12:21 pm
Handset component suppliers have begun shipping parts for the new iPhone, according to a Commercial Times report.
Taiwan-based handset component suppliers have begun shipping components and parts for the new iPhone that Apple is likely to launch in June, the Chinese-language Commercial Times has quoted sources at component suppliers as indicating.
Shipments of the old and new iPhones could top 2-3 million units, respectively, a quarter after Apple launches the new models, the paper quoted component suppliers as saying.
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Taiwanese firm Elan Microelectronics has sued Apple over two of its touch-screen patents, according to a New York Times report.
The suit was filed late Tuesday afternoon in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, said company spokesman Dennis Liu. “We couldn’t find a common viewpoint with Apple, so we decided we had to take action,” he said, adding that the companies had been in licensing talks for about two years.
Elan said it won a preliminary court injunction against U.S.-based rival Synaptics in a dispute over one of the patents mentioned in the Apple lawsuit, after a then-subsidiary unit filed suit in 2006. Synaptics counter-sued.
Both actions were dismissed last year after the two companies reached a cross-licensing agreement, according to a statement on Elan’s website.
(both via iClarified.com)
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