ITC Announces Investigation For HTC's Claims Against Apple

The lawsuit that HTC filed against Apple over patent related issues took a step forward today, as the ITC announced it will formally investigate the claims made by HTC. At the heart of the matter there are five patents which HTC claims Apple is using without permission. The patents include personalized software phone dialers, power-management technolog, and a phone dialer with memory access. HTC, which filed the complaint in response to Apple's very own lawsuit against HTC, is asking the ITC to block the U.S importation of iPhones, iPads, and iPods as a result of the patent infringement. We doubt something as big as this will happen but it is definitely going to be a hard time for Apple to deal with this as well as the ongoing investigation over the digital music market as well. A bitter sweet time for Apple is around the corner with the release of the new iPhone 4 as well as all these legal issues to sort out.