產(chǎn)業(yè)專家指出，蘋果(Apple)與臺(tái)灣手機(jī)大廠宏達(dá)電(HTC)達(dá)成智能手機(jī)專利授權(quán)協(xié)議，并不代表蘋果已經(jīng)打算終止與其它更大的 Android 陣營(yíng)競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手包括Google、摩托羅拉(Motorola)與三星(Samsung)之間的紛爭(zhēng)。 蘋果在美國(guó)時(shí)間11月10日宣布與HTC達(dá)成全球和解協(xié)議，內(nèi)容包括雙方所有專利訴訟均撤銷，并簽訂為期十年之專利授權(quán)契約，但合約內(nèi)容不公開。蘋果是在2010年3月控告HTC侵犯專利權(quán)，點(diǎn)燃雙方手機(jī)專利戰(zhàn)火；你來我往的訴訟與反訴案件超過100件。 而蘋果與HTC之間的協(xié)議，標(biāo)志著蘋果的法律策略正由訴訟朝向授權(quán)發(fā)展；市場(chǎng)觀察家指出，蘋果首席執(zhí)行官庫(kù)克(Tim Cook)已經(jīng)公開表示對(duì)訴訟案的厭惡，因此這樣的發(fā)展也是有跡可循的。蘋果已故前首席執(zhí)行官喬布斯(Steve Jobs)曾聲稱 Android 陣營(yíng)是“剽竊iPhone”，并宣示將針對(duì)該陣營(yíng)“發(fā)動(dòng)核戰(zhàn)”，看來該公司的策略已經(jīng)有所轉(zhuǎn)變。 根 據(jù)一些分析報(bào)告估計(jì)，蘋果將透過授權(quán)協(xié)議對(duì)HTC每支手機(jī)收取7美元的費(fèi)用，一年總收入可達(dá)2.8億美元。有兩位在過去兩年半密切觀察蘋果專利戰(zhàn)的產(chǎn)業(yè)專家猜測(cè)，蘋果也會(huì)針對(duì)其它競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手提出類似的授權(quán)協(xié)議；他們并指出，HTC的市占率最近顯著下滑，而且對(duì)于取得授權(quán)已經(jīng)采取較開放態(tài)度，也與微軟 (Microsoft)類似的協(xié)議。 “我認(rèn)為蘋果與HTC和解案，是智能手機(jī)市場(chǎng)專利戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)走向平息的好的開始，但僅僅是第一步而已…這種形式的和解最終有可能完全取代訴訟?！泵绹?guó)史丹佛大學(xué)法學(xué)院(Stanford Law School)教授Mark Lemley表示。 “HTC算是一家比較小的手機(jī)廠商，而且也有控告蘋果違反專利權(quán)；”Lemley在接受EETimes美國(guó)版的電子郵件采訪時(shí)表示：“因此蘋果有更多的理由繼續(xù)緊 追三星與摩托羅拉不放?！痹诮衲?月，蘋果才贏了一場(chǎng)大官司──美國(guó)加州圣荷西(San Jose)法院陪審團(tuán)裁定三星一系列手機(jī)侵犯了蘋果的設(shè)計(jì)與功能專利，須賠償10.5億美元給蘋果。 本文授權(quán)編譯自EE Times，版權(quán)所有，謝絕轉(zhuǎn)載 本文下一頁(yè)：蘋果與HTC協(xié)議存在的意義

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{pagination} “如果在不久的將來，蘋果與Android陣營(yíng)制造商達(dá)成更多授權(quán)協(xié)議，到那時(shí)候──也只有在那時(shí)候，才能安全的假設(shè)蘋果比喬布斯時(shí)期更朝向采取授權(quán)導(dǎo)向策略。”一位密切觀察手機(jī)專利戰(zhàn)的部落客Florian Mueller表示。 “HTC隨著時(shí)間推移，對(duì)蘋果的威脅越來越小，這特別激勵(lì)蘋果結(jié)束與該公司之間基本上只是使注意力分散的爭(zhēng)端。”Mueller同樣在接受EETimes美國(guó)版電子郵件采訪時(shí)表示。 Google在2011年8月以125億美元收購(gòu)摩托羅拉，是前者史上規(guī)模最大的一宗并購(gòu)案，主要是看中后者持有的1萬7,000項(xiàng)專利；而蘋果與HTC的協(xié)議，意味著并購(gòu)摩托羅拉并沒有讓Google取得保護(hù)其它Android陣營(yíng)廠商的足夠火力。 Mueller在一篇部落格文章中寫道：“如果HTC相信Google能藉由摩托羅拉專利解決Android的專利問題，就不會(huì)單獨(dú)與蘋果簽訂合約，而會(huì)等待Google所率領(lǐng)的整個(gè)Android陣營(yíng)與蘋果達(dá)成全球性的專利和解?！? 有業(yè)界消息指出，蘋果與Google的高層已經(jīng)針對(duì)手機(jī)專利訴訟問題進(jìn)行協(xié)商；一篇《時(shí)代雜志(Time Magazine)》表示：“蘋果與HTC的協(xié)議顯然是讓蘋果與Google之間代理戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)(proxy-war)等級(jí)下降，也為蘋果的授權(quán)交易設(shè)定了基準(zhǔn)線。” 本文授權(quán)編譯自EE Times，版權(quán)所有，謝絕轉(zhuǎn)載 編譯：Judith Cheng 參考英文原文：Apple, HTC patent deal may not open Android door，by Rick Merritt

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{pagination} Apple, HTC patent deal may not open Android door Rick Merritt SAN JOSE, Calif. – Apple's deal to license smartphpone patents to Taiwan's HTC does not necessarily indicate it is ready to end disputes with larger Android rivals Google, Motorola and Samsung, according to two experts. Apple announced on Nov. 10 it reached “a global settlement that includes the dismissal of all current lawsuits and a ten-year license agreement” with HTC, although it declined to provide details of the deal. Apple sued HTC for patent infringement on March 2, 2010, firing the first shot in a mobile patent war that eventually grew to more than 100 lawsuits and countersuits. The deal marks a shift in Apple’s legal strategy toward licensing rather than litigation. Observers said it bears the thumbprint of Apple CEO Tim Cook, who has expressed publicly his aversion to lawsuits. The move marks a policy shift from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs who vowed to “go thermonuclear” against Android backers he claimed “ripped off the iPhone.” Reports estimate Apple could be charging HTC about $7 per handset and could net as much as $280 million annually from the deal. But two experts who closely follow the two-and-a-half year mobile patent wars remain skeptical Apple will strike similar licensing deals with larger rivals. They note HTC has declined significantly in market share recently and has been more open to licensing, agreeing to a similar deal with Microsoft. “I think the settlement is a good first step towards winding down the smartphone wars, but it is only a first step…that settlement may replace litigation eventually,” said Mark Lemley, a professor at Stanford Law School. “HTC is a small player, and it had its own patent suits against Apple,” said Lemley in an email exchange. “So Apple has more reason to keep going after Samsung and Motorola than HTC,” he added. Indeed, Apple won a landmark $1.05 billion in August when a San Jose jury decided a wide array of Samsung handsets infringed Apple’s design and utility patents. "If Apple strikes more license deals with Android device makers in the near future, then--and only then--it will be safe to assume that Apple is more licensing-oriented than it was under Jobs," said Florian Mueller, a blogger who closely follows the mobile patent fights. "HTC has over time become less and less of a threat to Apple, so there was a particularly strong incentive for Apple to do away with what was basically a distraction," Mueller said in an email exchange. Google bought Motorola in August 2011 for $12.5 billion, its biggest acquisition ever, largely for its cache of 17,000 patents. The Apple/HTC deal suggests the merger did not yield Google enough ammunition to protect OEM users of Android. “If HTC had believed that Google could solve Android's patent problems with Motorola's patents, it wouldn't have done a separate deal with Apple but would have waited for a global settlement between Apple and the entire Google-led Android ecosystem,” Mueller wrote in his blog. Several reports said chief executives of Apple and Google have been in talks about mobile patent litigation. “This pact is unambiguously a de-escalation of Apple’s proxy-war against Google…setting a baseline for Apple licensing deals,” according to a report in Time Magazine.