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Potter Voice Technologies sues Apple, Google over voice patent

by Steven Sande (Apr 26th, 2012)

The latest in a string of patent lawsuits has just been announced: a relatively unknown Colorado company named Potter Voice Technologies claims that all major smartphone vendors, including Apple, are infringing on a patent on natural-language voice control of a computer. Apple's in good company ...

Apple sued by patent holder Brandywine over voicemail

by Steven Sande (Feb 23rd, 2012)

It's tough when you're at the top of your game, because everybody wants to shoot you down. A new lawsuit against Apple by Brandywine Communications Technologies claims that our buddies in Cupertino are infringing on two patents that vaguely describe mobile voicemail. And who is Brandywine? If your ...

Apple drops appeal of $21.7 million patent suit against OPTi

by TJ Luoma (Dec 10th, 2010)

Another great day for the patent trolls: Apple has decided to stop throwing good money after bad in its case against OPTi, which has been awarded a US$21.7 million settlement, according to AppleInsider. AppleInsider explains that the patent was for "predictive snooping" of "memory caches that speed ...

Apple getting sued again by patent profiteers

by Steven Sande (Dec 5th, 2009)

It must be hard to be as popular as Apple. You're always fighting the competition, who sometimes come late to the dance with a wannabee product, then deliver snarky punches into the kidneys with their TV ads. Even worse are the lawyers, who circle the company like a flock of vultures, picking away ...