During the last year the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), was sued in Germany by a company called IPCom, claiming that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), would be violated a series of patents related to data transfer technologies through a wireless network. The invention patents would be part of the standard category, those from Cupertino being part of a wide range of mobile terminal manufacturers that were sued by the same company, it being specialized in the monetization of invention patents.
Both cases involve patents relating to ways to manage access to overloaded wireless communication channels by handsets. The patent asserted in case no. 2 O 53/12, in which, inter alia, a partial claim of damages amounting to 1.57 billion euros ($2.12 billion), plus prejudgment interest, has been brought, isEP1841268. This patent has recently (on January 22, 2014) been the subject of a validity decision by the European Patent Office, in the first instance.
The company that acted Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), In the lawsuit, he claims that the Americans must pay 2.12 billion dollars in damages for patent infringement, but it remains to be seen if they will be able to convince the court of this. Until now, Apple has not been defeated in any legal dispute in Germany, so it remains to be seen how successful this new company will be.
