iPhone Faces Lawsuit Over One Of Its Best Features
12.06.07 - 01:08pm
360 million. That’s what Klausner Technologies is suing Apple for, insisting that one of the iPhones most inventive attributes, the visual viocemail, is theirs.
Klausner says that patents 5,572,576 and 5,283,818 which they hold, give them the rights to visual voicemail and require Apple to pay for using the technology.
The suite was filed by Dovel & Luner, a California law firm in a federal court in Texas. Klausner is has also named additional companies in the lawsuit suing AT&T, GotVoice, SimulScribe, Comcast, Cablevisions Systems and eBay, siting that all of them sell products featuring voicemail visually on a phone screen.
Klausner has won similar lawsuits against Time Warner, AOL and Vonage in the past two years, making this particular lawsuit one of the most likely to win with a high price of payment for Apple.
Apple currently has a number of other lawsuits against their beloved iPhone. Suits have been filed over the iBricking brought on when Apple made an iPhone update and “bricked” a number of unlocked iPhones, for the battery since which consumers are required to pay a number of additional fees to have replaced when it dies, and for the damage the iPhone brings to the environment brought on by Greenpeace.
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