A company that holds patents relating to a 'visual voicemail' system is suing
Apple and a
host of telecoms companies for hundreds of millions of dollars.
The lawsuit was filed by Klausner Technologies in the US Court for the
Eastern District of Texas, and asks for $360m from Apple and
AT&T.
New York-based Klausner Technologies claims that the patent infringements
concern internet voicemail services.
"The iPhone
violates Klausner's intellectual property rights by allowing the user to
selectively retrieve voice messages via the iPhone's inbox display," said the
company in an official statement.
Klausner Technologies sued
AOL for $200m in
2005 over its voice platform technology, eventually settling the case and
licensing it to AOL.
Vonage
settled a similar case in October this year over its Voicemail Plus, when
Klausner granted Vonage a patent license for an undisclosed sum.
"We have litigated this patent successfully on two prior occasions," said
Greg Dovel, counsel for Klausner Technologies at law firm
Dovel
& Luner.
"With the signing of each new licensee, we continue to receive further
confirmation of the strength of our visual voicemail patents."
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