
Remember a few months ago, when Samsung was fined over $1 billion for patent infringement and intellectual property theft? Clearly, that incident was still fresh in the minds of the team at HTC. The smartphone manufacturer recently settled with Apple in their global patent battle. HTC has agreed to pay Apple $6 to $8 in licensing fees for every Android smartphone sold. Since HTC is expected to ship about 30 million smartphones throughout 2013, this could work out to about $200 million…