For those who do not know, the term "patent troll" is used to refer to a person or company that imposes its patents against one or more alleged infringers in a way considered excessively aggressive or opportunistic, often without the intention of manufacturing or commercialize the product object of the patent. In fact, most of the time they do not even own the right to those patents, but by trying they do not lose anything. Apple has been involved on many occasions in stories of this type with the "patent trolls" and this is the last, since it has been sued for up to three different cases.
On this occasion, the plaintiff company is Uniloc, an entity that does not manufacture any product, located within the jurisdiction of the Court of the Eastern District of Texas. On this occasion, it accuses Apple of using its patents in three different matters: AirPlay, battery charging system and auto-dialing.
Regarding batteries, they refer to patent 6.661.203, which establishes an optimized battery charging and discharging system in high temperature situations. A fairly abstract explanation about a technology created by HP and bought by this company in 2001, which allows the battery temperature sensors to be used to prevent extreme heating.
On the other hand, as for AirPlay, they attack the demand 6.580.422 on the remote use of the screen using primitive graphics over a wireless network, there is nothing, also acquired from HP in 1995. And finally, the most hilarious is the one they interpose regarding auto-dialing, since they claim to have the patent that a telephone number is dialed automatically when we press a number or on a contact.
How will this lawsuit against the Cupertino company end? We will take a seat to see it.
Everyone who is not apple is anti-apple ... they cannot stop trying to trample on others to climb them ... be careful who you step on when going up, you do not know who you will meet when going down ... I think it is not useful for them, a small company monta has nothing to lose.
I do not understand why companies sell their patents to other companies that do not manufacture anything and only want to profit from the work of others, that practice should be prohibited, so as not to have more patent trolls