Company sues Apple over Tiger’s use of tabs
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Apr 21, 2007 at 4:38pm
Intellectual property agency IP Innovation LLC and its parent Technology Licensing Corporation have filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc., alleging that Mac OS X 10.4 (“Tiger”) treads on an interface patent that affects the operating system’s nearly universal use of tabs, according to an AppleInsider report.
The lawsuit is an intellectual property-patent infringement suit. The presiding judge is Leonard Davis of the Texas Eastern District Court.
The lawsuit was filed April 18th in a US district court in Marshall, Texas, and claims that Apple has engaged in “willful and deliberate” infringement of a computer control patent by selling its current Tiger operating system. IP Innovation is demanding a jury trial and asks for reparations for perceived damages which “exceed $20 million,” according to the suit. It also seeks an injunction that would prevent the California-based defendant from infringing on the patent, essentially blocking Apple from continuing to sell its current edition of Mac OS X and any future editions that might draw on the supposed infringements.
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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.
