pass still has to improve - he has to do it better, he has got better but he can still do better," said Guardiola. "Sometimes it's not possible but the big, big players decide well in those moments but we can't forget he's 22 years old."

Guardiola said Sterling is "curious" when pointing to his appetite to learn but perhaps the demand for further development is tough love as Sterling's figures for assists, chances created and successful crosses are improving this season.

Sterling's rate of finding the net every 72 minutes leaves big names such as Tottenham's Dele Alli and Liverpool's Philippe Coutinho trailing by some margin.

With two assists to his name this season, he also betters both men, though Manchester United's Marcus Rashford can boast three.

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Of the four patents in question, three were issued recently. "Their numbers start with an '8,' and the eight millionth U.S. patent was issued in September 2011," he wrote.

The fourth one is the "data tapping" patent and that "should be a slam dunk," Mueller said since on that patent with the International Trade Commission (ITC) in a suit against HTC.

The ITC is "a notoriously difficult forum where only about 1 out of 20 smartphone-related patents is deemed violated," Mueller said, so it's likely Apple will also be victorious in California district court, he speculated.

HTC that it can alter the "data tapping" feature to bypass the patent restriction, while leaving the core functionality intact.

Mueller also suggested that Apple's complaint goes after "a long list of Samsung products" but Cupertino