[–] Shooti 13y ago ↗ Probably the situation with HTC's LTE patents which got Apple on the ropes: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-06/htc-patents-challen...Plus HTC's downward trend recently probably made the cross-license more palatable.
[–] ChuckMcM 13y ago ↗ Perhaps its the beginning of the end of all the litigation. It puts HTC in a useful position (although how useful that position is can't be ascertained without knowing how much they are paying everyone per handset)
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