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Apple Faces Suit Over iPhone Keyboard
Mark Ramshaw
0 comments 06 August 2007
A lawsuit has been filed against Apple by SP Technologies, alleging that the touchscreen keyboard of the iPhone violates one of its own patents.
The patent in question, number 6,784,873 B1, describes ‘a method and medium for a computer readable keyboard display incapable of user termination’. The suit states that 'Apple has infringed, and is now infringing' the patent through ‘the use, sale, [and] offer for sale of its Phone product and system’.
SP Technologies has something of a reputation for filing lawsuits, having previously launched patent-related claims against the likes of LG and Canon. On this particular patent physician Peter V. Boesen is listed as the inventor. Boesen was recently sentenced to 51 months in jail for healthcare fraud, having filed false claims for Iowa’s Medicare and Medicard programmes.
Read the full story here.
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