• Apple New Patent

First reported on the lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

According to MPH Technologies, Apple infringes upon eight of its patents for secure messaging functionality. In the suit, MPH specifically mentions that iMessage, FaceTime, and Apple’s VPN technology used for MDM solutions among enterprise and educational customers, all infringe upon the eight patents. MPH’s patents relate to secure communication technologies, which it says are used by macOS, iOS, and macOS. MPH also mentions feature such as Handoff, Universal Clipboard, iPhone Cellular Call Relay, and iPhone Text Messaging forwarding that it says are based on the technology. MPH first reached out to Apple about the patent infringement in 2016 through several emails.

Oct 8, 2008 - Apple awarded patent on the Dock. It took nearly nine years, but Apple chief executive Steve Jobs and Co. Were awarded this week with a patent for their implementation of a software-based computer dock that has since become a trademark of the Mac OS X operating system. Apple Awarded Patent For iPhone Interface 449 Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 27, 2009 @12:09AM from the can't-touch-that dept. Apple awarded MacBook Air patent More like this. Visit Macworld UK’s blog page for the latest Mac news from across the Atlantic. Apple has just been awarded patents for a number of not-so-new.

Further, MPH warned Apple of a new patent that was eventually granted, of which it was also infringing. Eventually, Apple responded and said that it did not “believe a license is required, as the asserted patents are not infringed and/or invalid as MPH appears to be interpreting the claims.” Further, Apple invited MPH to “provide a detailed explanation” of its position, to which MPH obliged. In its response, MPH refuted Apple’s “gauge and conclusory assertions of non-infringement and invalidity” and provided copies of the patents in question. Follow that correspondence, Apple and MPH representatives held several teleconference calls to discuss a potential licensing agreement. Dur ing the May 2017 licensing discussions, Apple’s couns el indicated that Apple was preparing and would shortly send an analysis concerning alleged invalidity of one or more of MPH’s patents based on prior art. As of the filing of this Complaint, however, Apple has not sent such an analysis to MPH. Now, MPH Technologies is coming after Apple in the courtroom.

Apple New Patent

The company is seeking undisclosed compensation for the patent infringement, as well as an injunction against further use of the technologies using the patents in question.

The patent battle started in April 2011 when Apple accused Samsung of infringing some of its patents and trademarks with certain smartphone models. A little over a year later, a jury awarded more than $1 billion to Apple, paving the way for years of legal hassle. Samsung, unhappy with that, dragged the matter through court and a ruling was ultimately made to revisit $399 million of that billion-dollar figure. The issue involved five patents, and the infringement happened with select Samsung phones sold in 2010 and 2011.

Samsung had argued for damages of $28 million, down from the $399 million and a huge decrease from Apple’s $1 billion. The jury ended up siding closer to Apple than Samsung in the matter, ultimately awarding $533,316,606 over design patents and another $5,325,050 in utility patents. Despite the decrease, this is a major victory for Apple; the retrial was set to reconsider $399 million from Samsung. Apple, to no one’s surprise, praised the decision, saying Samsung has “blatantly copied” its patents. Samsung had already been found guilty of infringement; this retrial simply brought to close a decision about how much it will pay over it.