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Apple's Legal Showdown Over Multitouch Begins, With Palm Nowhere To Be Seen [Multitouch]
Gizmodo —
You know the patent Cold War that's been brewing over Apple's claimed exclusivity over multitouch tech? It just got hotter, but the heat comes not from the Palm Pre, but lil' old Elan Microelectronics. Elan is a Taiwan-based touchpad manufacturer, best known for supplying the touchpads on several Eee PC models. And apparently they've got a well-leveraged patent position on multitouch tech: last year, Elan and touchpad giant Synaptics came to a cross-licensing agreement after an initial injunction in a similar lawsuit ruled in Elan's favor. The case ...
Irony Rules - Apple Sued Over Touch-Screen Rights
Futurelawyer —
Apple Sued Over Touch-Screen Rights - NYTimes.com.
When the Palm Pre was announced, pundits immediately began speculating whether Apple would sue Palm over the rights to the multi-touch screen interface. Now, in an interesting turn of events, Apple itself is being sued over the same multi-touch interface, by Taiwanese chip design firm, Elan Microelectronics. My first question is to ask, can you really patent finger action? Do we want innovations crippled because someone wants to prevent ...
Firma taiwanesa processa Apple por violação de patentes relacionadas a touchscreens
MacMagazine —
A Elan Microelectronics, de Taiwan, acaba de entrar com um processo contra a Apple, afirmando que ela teria violado duas de suas patentes relacionadas a touchscreens, reporta o NYTimes.com. Os produtos envolvidos seriam o iPhone, o iPod touch e o MacBook — em trackpads multi-touch e em telas sensíveis ao toque.
“Não conseguimos achar um ponto de vista em comum com a Apple, então decidimos tomar alguma atitude”, afirmou Dennius Liu, porta-voz da firma taiwanesa. Segundo eles, ambas discutem algum tipo de licenciamento há cerca de dois anos.
A Elan possui um histórico positivo nos tribunais, tendo ...
Taiwanese company sues Apple over multitouch patent
Tech Ticker —
... licensing terms led Elan to file a case against the iPod maker.
Though Elan has not divulged the remedial action, it is more or less clear that they want a small pie from the huge profits Apple is making by selling these products. Apple posted $1.61 billion earnings in the last quarter alone.
An analyst claims Elan’s previous victory over Synaptics which resulted in an out of court settlement is one of the reasons they are taking its chances with Apple.
[Via NYTimes]
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Taiwanese Company Slaps Apple With Touchscreen Lawsuit
Wired: Gadget Lab —
A Taiwanese company on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Apple, alleging the corporation infringed its touchscreen patents.
Chip design company Elan filed the suit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The suit alleges that Apple's MacBook, iPhone and iPod Touch feature technologies infringing on two of Elan's patents.
"We couldn’t find a common viewpoint with Apple, so we decided we had to take action," Elan spokesman Dennis Liu told New York Times.
The patents describe a "multiple fingers contact sensing method for emulating mouse buttons and mouse operations on a touch sensor pad." The lawsuit ...
Apple Sued Over Touch-Screen Rights
textually.org —
The New York Times reports that a Taiwanese firm claims that Apple products, including the MacBook, iPhone and iPod Touch, use technology that infringes on two of its patents.
The suit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Dennis Liu, an Elan spokesman, said by telephone from the headquarters of the chip design company in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Jill Tan, an Apple spokeswoman based in Hong Kong, said in an e-mail message that the company would not comment on the Elan suit. ...
