A Florida company filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple because of the way OS X boots up.

The patent was originally owned by LG Electronics, Inc., and the company bringing the suit is called Operating Systems Solutions, LLC. It is unclear at this time if LG is involved the lawsuit, or what relationship, if any, exists between the two companies.

As their intellectual property war rages against Samsung, Apple can claim another victory. Kind of. Samsung has agreed to stop advertising the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia, and to refrain from selling the device until it wins court approval or a deal is reached with Apple.

Apple agreed to pay damages to Samsung for lost sales in Australia should they lose the lawsuit, though clearly this scenario seems less and less likely to the Cupertino legal team.

HTC wants to end all the legal bloodshed, because it's bad for business. In a call today, Winston Yung, chief financial officer of HTC, said, "We have to sit down and figure it out" and "we're open to having discussions." Maybe there is a new consigliere at the Taiwan based company, or maybe they've been watchign a lot of Godfather movies and realized that Sonny, while cool and all, was never going to make any real money with all that fighting.

Apple recently filed a second patent infringement complaint against HTC before the existing complaint is settled. Though they are not the first company to use this strategy in the ongoing Tech Wars, Apple may be resigned to defeat with regards to their initial complaint and already drawing the battle lines for round two.

A department of the International Trade Commission thinks the initial complaint is baseless. If that complaint does not go their way, Apple now has some more cards to play.