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Apple’s highly-visible iPhone is great for the company’s bottom line. Unfortunately, it makes for a great lawsuit target. Apple has again been sued on claims that the iPhone treads on multiple patents ranging from media consumption through iTunes, the AppStore and even the iPhone’s camera image sensor.
Affinity Labs has filed suit against Apple for violating three patents with iPhone-related technologies. The lawsuit claims that the Apple iPhone’s integration with iTunes violates an Affinity Labs’ patent that outlines a method for browsing and downloading music and then wirelessly transferring the files to a handheld devices. The iPhone’s AppStore integration is also being targeted as a possible infringement on Affinity IP.
Accolade Systems has also filed suit against Apple for using one of three patent-infringing image sensors, made by Aptina Imaging and Micron, in the iPhone. Accolade’s original lawsuit referred to Apple, but didn’t name the company as a defendant, which indicates that Accolade only recently saw Apple lined up in their sights.
Apple’s legal team will surely be busy this year.
[Via: AppleInsider]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
