Google has stepped into the widening legal battle pitching Asian smartphone makers against Apple by transferring patents to Taiwan’s HTC, which is fighting charges from the iPhone maker of intellectual property infringement in its Android phones.
The US internet search group, which allows makers to use its Android mobile phone operating system for free, transferred nine patents to HTC last week.
On Wednesday, the smartphone maker used some of its newly acquired intellectual property to file countersuits against Apple in two US courts.
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