Apple is appealing a US International Trade Commission ruling on its first complaint against HTC, notes FOSS Patents. The appeal is actually said to have been filed with the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on December 29th, but remained out of the limelight until it was referenced today in a filing with the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. There Apple is trying to assert a real-time API patent against Motorola, and told the court that an administrative law judge agreed with Apple's construction of the term "realtime application programm
