Today in Android Cell Phone News, earlier today, Apple filed suit against HTC on the basis of Patent Infringement. Apple is stating that HTC has infringed upon 20 of it’s patents, and with this declaration - Apple has declared war upon Android. There is no word as to whether Google is involved or not, but from what we’ve seem, it is only HTC - on the topic of the Nexus One. Now I admit - the Nexus One is - sort of - Android’s iPhone… but whether or not HTC has gone so far as to copy Apple’s patents - I think - is going a step too far. The complete list of patents being infringed upon include:

• Patent No. 7,362,331: “Time-Based, Non-Constant Translation Of User Interface Objects Between States”
• Patent No. 7,479,949: “Touch Screen Device, Method, And Graphical User Interface For Determining Commands By Applying Heuristics”
• Patent No. 7,657,849: “Unlocking A Device By Performing Gestures On An Unlock Image”
• Patent No. 7,469,381: “List Scrolling And Document Translation, Scaling, And Rotation On A Touch-Screen Display”
• Patent No. 5,920,726: “System And Method For Managing Power Conditions Within A Digital Camera Device.”
• Patent No. 7,633,076: “Automated Response To And Sensing Of User Activity In Portable Devices”
• Patent No. 5,848,105: “GMSK Signal Processors For Improved Communications Capacity And Quality”
• Patent No. 7,383,453: “Conserving Power By Reducing Voltage Supplied To An Instruction-Processing Portion Of A Processor”
• Patent No. 5,455,599: “Object-Oriented Graphic System”
• Patent No. 6,424,354: “Object-Oriented Event Notification System With Listener Registration Of Both Interests And Methods”

There was another complaint which was filed with the ITC, and there must lie the other 10 patents, since there are only ten listed here. We will most certainly keep you up to date on what new information develops in this breaking news, only at AndroidTrek.com. [TechCrunch]