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Taiwanese company also wants to ban sales of Apple products

In addition to Nokia, which has an open fight at the International Trade Commission to ban sales of the iPhone, Alan Microelectronics has also made a similar request to try to prevent Apple from selling any product with multi-touch technology. Although it has a large set of patents that defend its investments in this area, the Cupertino firm would have infringed a technology registered since 1998 in the name of the Taiwanese company, related to the recognition of two or more fingers on surfaces.


An Elan representative said Bloomberg that disrupting sales of MacBooks, iPod touch, iPhones, Magic Mouses and even iPads is part of your company's defense strategy against those who (allegedly) commit infractions on your inventions. Our goal is to protect our technology and stop sales of these products in the United States, he said.

To date, Apple has never commented publicly on this process, although it did press release its recent actions against Nokia and HTC. However, the list of lawsuits she is defending in justice has many other names besides Elan.

(via Cult of Mac)