Apple sued over iPhone called ID

Yet another lawsuit for Apple and this time over called id used on iPhone. The man named Romek Figa claims that such patent was given to him back in the 90’s.

His patent is “an automatic incoming telephone call number display system for detecting an incoming call and identifying the party associated with the incoming call number”.

Like on iPhone it has “The system includes a directory of telephone numbers and parties associated with those numbers.” Also like on iPhone the “Circuitry detects the origin telephone number of an incoming telephone call and compares that number with numbers in the directory for identifying the calling party. A display permits the user to view the incoming call number and party associated with that number.”

However the means to do that are really different as you can see in the patent diagram.

Still, Figas claim is that Apple has made or is making, has used or is using, has offered or is offering to sell, and/or has sold and is selling telephones which infringe” on his patent. In July, according to the suit, Figa asked Apple if they’d like to license the patent, but they said no.

There will always be people who will want to profit the easy way.

Thanks: RegHardware

Tags: app, Apple, iPhone, OS, UK

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