It looks like Apple’s legal woes over patents won’t end with Nokia and HTC -- a Taiwanese firm has now filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission seeking to halt the import of Apple’s products that use multitouch.

MacRumors is reporting on the latest patent headache for Apple, which comes courtesy of a Bloomberg report. Taiwanese company Elan Microelectronics filed a lawsuit against Apple back in April, 2009 claiming patent infringement. Not content with that approach, they’ve backed it up with a formal complaint against Cupertino with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), who currently has several other complaints pending -- both for and against Apple.

"Our goal is to protect our technology and to stop sales of those products in the U.S.," explains Dennis Liu, spokesman for Hsinchu, Taiwan-based Elan in the Bloomberg report filed on Monday.

“Apple’s iPhone, iPod Touch, MacBook, Magic Mouse and iPad use technology which infringes Elan's ‘352’ patent for detecting the simultaneous presence of two or more fingers,” the company said in an e-mail statement yesterday. The ITC will have 30 days to decide whether or not to pursue Elan’s claims.

Apple is no stranger to fending off patent infringement claims -- they are currently doing battle with both Nokia and Kodak on similar issues. The company also took a rare offensive step earlier this month by filing a complaint with the ITC against HTC, who manufactures a variety of devices which use Google’s competing Android operating system.

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