Source : YahooKlausner Technologies announced to have filed a patent lawsuit claiming that visual voicemail technology used by Apple, Inc. on the iPhone, is covered by some of its patents (U.S. Patents 5,572,576 and 5,283,818). The company even provided an estimate of the financial requirements to cover both current damages and future royalties: US$360 millions. Already for the Newton, Apple took a license from Klausner Technologies, a 20 years old story... As usual in this type of conflict, the solution will be a check, and only the number of zeros will really matters [translation by Linathael]

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