Apple sued by patent holding company Brandywine over voicemail
22/02/2012 |
Apple is being sued by Brandywine Communications Technologies over multimedia voicemail in its iPhone and iPad products. In the complaint filed in the U.S. district court for the middle district of Florida Tuesday, Brandywine claims that Apple is infringing on two patents it owns related to mobile voicemail.
The patents in question are No.6,236,717 and No.5,719,922,which are very similar, and both are described as covering a “simultaneous voice/data answering machine.” The patents at...
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