Apple will have to go to court again: the company voip-pal has officially announced that will sue Apple for 2.800 million dollars in damages for patent infringement of your Internet communications technology. The plaintiff says that the total is the result of a 1.25% of royalties for the approximate benefits that Apple has obtained in its products that use, above all, iMessage. Of that percentage, Voip-pal has calculated 55% for the iPhone, 35% for the iPad and 10% for the Mac.
Voip-pal has several patents in motion, among those tried for infringement or pending, but most of those patents are related to its internet protocol technology. According to the company, Apple is infringing not one, if not several of those patents on software like iMessage and FaceTime, the second to make free calls and video calls between Apple devices.
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In particular, devices using the iMessage application initiate a communication between a caller and a recipient. The recipient can be a subscriber to Apple or a non-subscriber. In the case where the recipient is an Apple subscriber, the communication is sent using iMessage. On the other hand, if the user is not an Apple subscriber or if iMessage is not available, the communication will be sent via SMS / MMS. Apple's messaging system directly and / or indirectly practices certain claims of the 815 patent to determine the classification of a user and, consequently, how the call should be handled.
Voip-pal delivered the documentation of the lawsuit on February 9, but was in talks with Apple outside the courts to see if they could reach an agreement, coming to consider the idea of selling or licensing its patent portfolio. The company says it's not a troll patent, although it does not generate any type of profit with them and has also sued other companies such as AT&T or Verizon.