Earlier in the week it was reported that Apple was being sued over its e-book applications for the iPhone and now it has received two more lawsuits for it camera technology and streaming capabilities.
It seems lately everyone wants a slice of Apple’s pie, the first of the lawsuits filed against the manufacturer came earlier in the week when a Swiss company, Monec Holdings, claimed that the Amazon Kindle app and other e-reading apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch were infringing a Monec patent.
The action was taken out in a Virginia district court and according to Monec, Apple violated a patent they filed as “a lightweight electronic device with a touch screen LCD having the dimensions such that approximately one page of a book can be illustrated at normal size, this display being integrated in a flat, frame like housing”.
The new wave of lawsuits to confront Apple, are to do with its streaming and camera capabilities.
The first complaint has come from Affinity Labs, which alleges that Apple through its App Store and iTunes applications, infringes on an Affinity patent for browsing, streaming and downloading content over wireless and cellular networks.
The specific complaint, according to the Texas court, is in regards to Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch breaking Affinity’s technology for voicemail and music streaming.
The final suit filed comes from Accoladae systems, and apparently Apple violates its patent through CMOS image sensors used in the iPhone’s camera. But this charge is only indirectly aimed at Apple due to the fact that it Apple use technology from Aptima Imaging and Micron. The final version of the court proceeding names Apple as a defendant alongside the earlier mentioned companies.
It seems the flood gates have opened for lawsuits against Apple and no doubt they will probably continue, due to Apple’s dominance in the consumer electronics industry.