The Apple company is the target of a new lawsuit filed against it today in a US court, a company called VoIP-Pal demanding 2.8 billion dollars for infringing some of its own patents by launching Apple's iDevices.
The amount of 2,836,710,031 represents 1.25% of the receipts recorded by Apple through the sale of iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches, and the problematic technology is VoIP, which is used for FaceTime and a multitude of other iOS applications.
The VoIP-Pal company describes in its lawsuit how Apple infringes its patents and the whole system is quite complex, but the basic idea is that Apple uses someone else's technology to get what it wants.
Although the lawsuit was filed on February 9, until yesterday it was requested to suspend the initiation of the trial because VoIP-Pal tried to negotiate with Apple a payment of damages, but it seems that these discussions have not had any positive finality for now.
Apple employs VPLM's innovative technology and products, features, and designs, and has widely distributed infringing products that have undermined VPLM's marketing efforts. Instead of pursuing independent product development, Apple employed VPLM's innovative caller attribute classification and routing product design, in violation of VPLM's valuable intellectual property rights.
Although the court will start to analyze the request to be sued, the two companies will still be able to discuss a possible amicable solution to the problems, so in the end everything could be solved out of court and with a smaller loss for Apple .
In particular, devices running the iMessage application initiate a communication between a caller and a callee. The callee may be an Apple subscriber or a non-subscriber. In the case that the caller is an Apple subscriber, the communication is sent using iMessage. On the other hand, if the user is not an Apple subscriber or if iMessage is not available, the communication is sent using SMS/MMS. Apple's messaging system directly and/or indirectly practices certain claims of the '815 patent in order to determine the classification of a user, and, subsequently, how the call should be routed.
