Bluebonnet Telecommunications, a company originating from the state of Texas in the USA, sued the Apple company based on the implementation in iPhone 4S si iPhone 5 of the call forwarding system, a function available in all mobile phones sold now. The patent used for company action Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), The lawsuit belonged to Siemens Rolm Communications, and the technology invoked in that patent does not differ, at first glance, from what other companies offer. The problem for those from Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), it consists in the fact that he would not have obtained the license for the use of this technology in his own smartphones, and if he does not have the consent of any other licensor, then he could lose the process.
Apple has been sued in many courts around the world for infringing a very wide range of patents, but so far few companies have managed to convince the courts of the claims invoked in the lawsuits. Although it is unlikely that Apple has not licensed a technology of this kind for terminals iPhone 4S or iPhone 5, if this is true, then those from Cupertino could pay tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
