When a company is large, many people try to get pears out of the elm tree, denouncing things that at first may seem absurd but sometimes are not. One of the most recent cases is found in the patent infringement lawsuit of a Chinese company in which demanded that Apple stop selling the iPhone 6 in Shanghai because if the design was very similar to one of their devices. On this occasion, Apple has not had to go so far to receive a complaint from a person from Pennsylvania, named Samuel Lit in which he sued the company with the use of images of its products in the form of a carousel, as if it were Apple the only company that does.
Show the images of the products or services in a carousel form allows developers to display much more information in one place without forcing the user to scroll the page. In fact, Apple uses it many times on its main website to show the iPhone 6s, the iPad Pro, the Apple Watch and the MacBook, the company's flagship devices at the moment.
Lit claims that the carousel used by Apple on its website is infringing on US Patent No. 8.783.330. Apple already has more than 20 claims for the use of this patent without having paid for it. The patent describes a "system and method for displaying graphics, text, video, photographs and other content."
Lit is looking for reasonable compensation in the form of royalties. This is not the first time that this person has tried to profit from this patent. He previously had a website called YourDisplayCarousel that was taken down last December. Lit who was a radio host, was President of Hy Lit Radio Technologies.