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Apple settles Klausner suit

by Mark Rowland on Jun 16, 2008 at 09:45 PM

iphone visual voicemail
Klausner has finally announced that they have made a settlement in their patent lawsuit against Apple and AT&T. Back in December, Klausner filed suit against the two companies, claiming that the iPhone’s visual voicemail software violated patents 5,572,576 and 5,283,818 .Apple and AT&T are both going to pay the firm an undisclosed sum to license the technology.

Back when Visual Voicemail was introduced, it was met with tremendous support. Some even went as far as to call it “... a very significant development in the world of voicemail ... [it should be] standard everywhere.”  Apple tooted their own horn by calling it “... one of the greatest advances in the history of mankind ... without question.”

Um, okay. Overstatement of the century. I’m not saying the program isn’t a good one, but both of the patents it violates are more then 12 years old. 

Those two patents have been successfully defended before; Klausner recently settled with Vonage over the same issue.

Via [Apple Insider]

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