Apple sued over voicemail patents
22/02/2012 |
Adding to its large array of ongoing lawsuits, Apple has been sued by patent holding company Brandywine Communications Technologies over two voicemail patents. The lawsuit was filed in a local Florida court on Tuesday, reports GigaOm.
The patents in questions areNo.6,236,717andNo.5,719,922, which were filed in 2001 and 1998 respectively by Brandywine. One patentis officially described as…(...)Read the rest of Apple sued over voicemail patents
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