News Analysis: Apple’s lawsuit against HTC could prove to be a long-lasting headache for the mobile industry. HTC says it will vigorously fight Apple’s lawsuit and prove that it doesn’t violate the company’s patents. But if HTC loses, or even if some of Apple’s patents infringement claims are upheld in court, the lawsuit could set the mobile industry back in a number of ways. This is how it could happen.
– In a statement released earlier this week, HTC
said that it plans to vigorously fight the patent infringement suit Apple
recently filed against it. The company contends that it is without fault and in
no way violated patents Apple currently holds in any of its Android-based
phones or Windows Mob…