20.06.2013 17:36 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Apple hit with new patent lawsuit, this one for call forwarding

Another day, another patent lawsuit. Earlier this week, Apple was served with a lawsuit from a Texas-based company called Bluebonnet Telecommunications which alleges that the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 include a call-forwarding feature that infringes upon a patent of theirs which covers a "method and apparatus for determining the telephony features assigned to a telephone." The patent in question was originally granted to Bluebonnet Telecommunications back in 1996. The lawsuit reads in part: Apple induces end-user customers to use the accused smartphones, and specifically to use them in a manner that infringes the 511 patent. They do so by (1) providing instructions to their customers that explain how to use the featur

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