
When Apple Inc and HTC Corp last week ended their worldwide legal battles with a 10-year patent licensing agreement, they declined to answer a critical question: whether all of Apple's patents were covered by the deal.
It's an enormously important issue for the broader smartphone patent wars. If all the Apple patents are included -including the "user experience" patents that the company has previously insisted it would not license - it could undermine the iPhone makers efforts to permanently ban the sale of products that copy its technology.
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Remember passion? Those of you who ran with me fast and hard while I was SVP of sales and marketing with the Samsung Electronics team remember our dedication to market leadership. It was a time when we were neither predator nor prey to the mighty consumer electronic brands at the time. There may have been times when our market share was down, but we were all hungry and wide-eyed, and we came back together to build a market and create a valuable brand. We earned the trust of our retail partners, surpassed our established competitors, and became a new market leader. Our passion created a united front and yielded positive results.
Earning shelf space was hard work, but we followed the cry of, Let’s Dare To Lead Together! We won many battles using our most competitive weapon: unyielding, unstoppable passion. I was privileged to lead such a passionate team of Spartan professionals against formidable market Titans.