A lawsuit seeks to bar importation of iPhone competitors into the United States.

While Apple’s marketing machine generally downplays the threat to the iPhone posed by Google’s new Nexus One mobile device, the company’s lawyers see it differently.

The Nexus One, as well as other touch-screen phones manufactured by HTC for Google and other third parties, has caused “irreparable injury” to Apple’s mobile franchise, according to court documents.

Apple claims HTC infringed on 20 patents governing a range of technologies. It filed legal actions against the Taiwanese company Tuesday with the U.S. International Trade Commission and the U.S. District Court for Delaware.

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