iPhone Visual Voicemail co-defendant, SimulScribe, settles lawsuit with Klausner Technologies
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jan 22, 2008 at 8:39am
SimulScribe a co-defendant with Apple in the patent infringement lawsuit recently filed by Klausner Technologies, has settled the litigation and has licensed the Klausner Technologies visual voicemail patents. Other defendants in the case include ATT, Comcast and Cablevision Systems Corp.
The license covers SimulScribe’s visual voicemail service, which allows subscribers to selectively retrieve voice messages from a mobile phone or computer display. SimulScribe is the latest defendant, in a series of lawsuits brought by Klausner Technologies over visual voicemail, to sign a license with Klausner.
In December Klausner Technologies filed a patent lawsuit under its Visual Voicemail patents against the companies mentioned above. The lawsuit asserts that Apple’s iPhone Visual Voicemail infringes Klausner Technologies’ U.S. Patents 5,572,576 and 5,283,818.
These patents have already been licensed to various other companies that provide visual voicemail, including Time Warner’s AOL for its AOL Voicemail services, Vonage Holdings for its Vonage Voicemail Plus services as well as others, under the Klausner patent, according to the folks at Klausner Technologies. The company also claims that Apple’s Newton, was, in fact, covered under an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) patent license granted by Klausner Technologies founder Judah Klausner over 20 years ago under his landmark US Patent 4,117,542.
The company says the iPhone violates Klausner’s intellectual property rights by allowing users to selectively retrieve voice messages via the iPhone’s inbox display. The suit has been filed by the California law firm of Dovel & Luner in a federal court in the Eastern District of Texas.
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