Word just arrive down that Apple ’s iPhone has been obtain to infringe on three patent of invention held byMobileMedia , according to Bloomberg . It ’s not clear-cut which letters patent are in question , but in 2010 , MobileMedia , a company owned by Sony , Nokia , and a company that licence MPEG patent of invention , took Apple to court over 18 patentsdealing with screen gyration and call rejection .
MobileMedia is structure to “ defend ” the patents of Sony and Nokia without exposing the caller to counterclaims within the same suit — like in the Apple vs. Samsung case earlier this year . The screen revolution in question seems to beSony ’s , filed in 1999 , includes nomenclature like“by constrict the rotate button a maximum of three times for one image , the exploiter can revolve the epitome clockwise . ”
Unconfirmed reports are enunciate that the affected patents involve incoming calls , as well as beam camera information from a telephone set to another locating .
We ’ll update with more detail as we have them . [ Bloomberg ]
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