The barrier was successfully avoided for HTC Droid Incredible, HTC Evo 4G, and all other Android phones that HTC has today. HTC violated some patent of Microsoft’s, and could have potentially faced a lawsuit.
Instead of Microsoft suing HTC, they both signed an intellectual property agreement for smartphones running Google’s Android operating system. HTC will need to pay Microsoft an unknown amount for selling each Android phone.
The HTC Droid Incredible launches on Verizon tomorrow, and their new HTC Evo 4G phone is launching in summer 2010. Both of these new phones are running Google’s Android operating system. Looks like someone will be paying Microsoft a lot this year, thanks to our patent system.
