HTC COUNTER SUES APPLE WITH FORMER GOOGLE PATENTS

There's a fresh new twist in the never ending Apple / HTC patent battle. The Taiwanese handset manufacturer is hitting back against Apple using newly obtained firepower: nine patents picked up from Google last week. The patents, which began life under Palm, Motorola and Openwave Systems, were transferred to HTC on September 1st.

Apple has sued HTC for patent infringement as well over HTC's use of Android.