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By Wang Huazhong ( China Daily)
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Man says FaceTime infringes on his IPR in latest action against IT giant
Within weeks of Apple settling a high-profile dispute over its iPad trademark, the US tech giant now faces a lawsuit by a man in Taiwan over FaceTime.
The plaintiff, identified only as Lee, claims technology used in the video-calling application violates his patent.
A spokesman for Zhenjiang Intermediate People's Court in Jiangsu province on Tuesday confirmed it has accepted the case.
The suit calls for Apple to cease the violation but does not specify compensation, said a publicity official at the court who gave her name only as Shen.
She said the plaintiff discovered the violation after purchasing an iPhone in Zhenjiang, and decided to file the case with a local court.
Apple has been notified of the case, Shen added.
Calls to the Zhenjiang Zhufang Law Firm, which is representing Lee, went unanswered on Tuesday.
According to the indictment, Lee claims authorities on the mainland granted his utility model patent on"voice network personal digital assistant"technology on April 28, 2004, with a valid period of 10 years, Yangtze Evening News reported.
The indictment said his patent includes a wireless communication module, a flash memory that stores codes of network voice service, as well as a personal digital assistant that connects the communication module and memory technologies very similar to those used by FaceTime.
Apple's spokeswoman in Beijing could not be reached for comment on Tuesday.
FaceTime, which was released by Apple in 2010, is available on the company's iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, iMac and MacBook.
Meanwhile, the legal teams that helped Proview Shenzhen secure $60 million from its iPad dispute with Apple in June are now suing their former employers.
Guanghe and Grandall law firms have both filed suits in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, in an attempt to join the technology company's long list of creditors.
Proview is about $400 million in debt and has been teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
Apple faces new suit over patent claim |Sci-Tech |chinadaily.com.cn
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Man says FaceTime infringes on his IPR in latest action against IT giant
Within weeks of Apple settling a high-profile dispute over its iPad trademark, the US tech giant now faces a lawsuit by a man in Taiwan over FaceTime.
The plaintiff, identified only as Lee, claims technology used in the video-calling application violates his patent.
A spokesman for Zhenjiang Intermediate People's Court in Jiangsu province on Tuesday confirmed it has accepted the case.
The suit calls for Apple to cease the violation but does not specify compensation, said a publicity official at the court who gave her name only as Shen.
She said the plaintiff discovered the violation after purchasing an iPhone in Zhenjiang, and decided to file the case with a local court.
Apple has been notified of the case, Shen added.
Calls to the Zhenjiang Zhufang Law Firm, which is representing Lee, went unanswered on Tuesday.
According to the indictment, Lee claims authorities on the mainland granted his utility model patent on"voice network personal digital assistant"technology on April 28, 2004, with a valid period of 10 years, Yangtze Evening News reported.
The indictment said his patent includes a wireless communication module, a flash memory that stores codes of network voice service, as well as a personal digital assistant that connects the communication module and memory technologies very similar to those used by FaceTime.
Apple's spokeswoman in Beijing could not be reached for comment on Tuesday.
FaceTime, which was released by Apple in 2010, is available on the company's iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, iMac and MacBook.
Meanwhile, the legal teams that helped Proview Shenzhen secure $60 million from its iPad dispute with Apple in June are now suing their former employers.
Guanghe and Grandall law firms have both filed suits in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, in an attempt to join the technology company's long list of creditors.
Proview is about $400 million in debt and has been teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
Apple faces new suit over patent claim |Sci-Tech |chinadaily.com.cn
