Throughout Apple's long line of lawsuits add today a new one that this time has to do with the way iOS identifies the initiator of a phone call. The company that sued Apple is from the US and claims that two patents describing technologies for identifying caller ID were infringed in the iPhone terminals that Apple launched on the market in recent years.
Cequint Inc. of Seattle, a unit of data-network servicer TNS Inc. (TNS) of Reston, Virginia, seeks unspecified damages and a court order to stop Apple's use of the inventions, according to a complaint yesterday in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware.
"Cequint has been damaged by Apple's infringement" and "will be irreparably harmed" unless stopped by a judge, Cequint's lawyers said in the complaint.
Neither Apple nor the Cequit company provided details about this new process, but Cequint asked a US court to force the Apple company to stop using the technology in its own iDevices. Practically, Cequint demands the prohibition of the sale of iDevices until the problem is solved and Apple is once again forced to appear its iPhones in an American court.
