Apple sued over iPhone concepts
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jan 23, 2008 at 2:18pm
Another day, another lawsuit. Los Angeles-based Minerva Industries is suing Apple and satellite phone company Atlantic RT for patent infringement after having just recently beat both firms to a new patent covering mobile entertainment and communications devices, reports AppleInsider.
The company filed the patent infringement lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas on Tuesday, just hours after having been granted United States Patent No. 7,321,783 entitled “Mobile Entertainment and Communication Device,” the article adds. The six-page formal complaint alleges that representatives from Minerva informed Apple of their pending application with United States Patent and Trademark Office covering iPhone concepts back in November, but that Apple “waited until approximately one week before the patent was to issue before sending prior art” in an attempt to trump the filing with one of its own.
After subsequently examining both claims, however, the patent office definitively ruled in Minerva’s favor, determining the claims within its application were patentable over Apple’s prior art and all other art that had been submitted to the office, notes AppleInsider.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
