Follow the patent, follow the money, find some madness from HTC

U.S. Patent No. 6,473,006 on a “method and apparatus for zoomed display of characters entered from a telephone keypad”; originally filed by Phone-com, which assigned it to Openwave, then sold to a French company named Purple Labs, which sold it on to Myriad’s French subsidiary, sold by Myriad to Google last year and by Google to HTC on August 29, 2011 (recorded on September 1).

And now HTC use it to sue Apple for infringing on their IP. Madness, I tell you. Madness!