Apple gets into trouble over the term "Animoji"

One of the novelties of the cameras and sensors that make Face ID work is precisely the fact that We can create animated Emojis, or as the Cupertino company has decided to call them: Animoji. The eleventh functionality of iOS that will probably end up failing in most popular areas, as unfortunately has already happened for example with Live Photos.

However, it seems that The Animoji issue is going to bring a queue for a while longer, and that is that Apple has now been involved in an interesting judicial kernel, which will probably end up with a startup obtaining a significant amount of money in exchange for disappearing from the map. Let's get to know the subject a little more in depth.

Apple and patents, the never ending issue. Apparently a company called Emonster saw fit to approach the United States Patent and Trademark Office to make the term Animoji official, a concept that would be used within an application that would have the same name. This application was launched in the iOS App Store back in 2014, although it is since 2015 when they are fighting to patent the name. Apparently, the worst of the matter is that the Cupertino company does not come at once.

So much so that Apple has already offered the company to buy the brand, but they have rejected it. They know that if they give it publicity and it ends up in court, they will end up getting a lot more. But to be honest, if the name was theirs, they had registered it and they had a clear idea ... why not go to fight for what is theirs? To be honest it is one of the few complaints about patents allegedly infringed by Apple that I would be able to understand. Be that as it may, developer Enrique Bonasea, an American who currently lives in Japan, is quite clear that Apple is knowingly infringing his patent. We will follow the issue closely.