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Apple sued for promoting iPhone as eBook reader
AppleInsider — ... Published: 10:00 AM EST A overseas communications firm is suing Apple for promoting its iPhone handset as a touchscreen digital book reader, a concept it claims to have patented over seven years ago. In a 7-page complaint filed with a Virginia district court Monday, Berne, Switzerland-based MONEC Holding Ltd accuses the iPhone maker of patent infringement, unfair trade practices, monopolization, and tortious interference for allegedly treading on its January 2002 patent No. 6,335,678 titled "Electronic device, preferably an electronic book." A self-described "leading ...

Apple sued for pushing iPhone as eBook reader
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — In a strange twist of fate, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s move to regain ground lost to the Kindle by pushing the iPhone as a legitimate eBook reader has earned it a new lawsuit for violating an eBook patent filed seven years ago. eBook pioneer Amazon is meanwhile clear to keep peddling its Kindle Reader. Apple is being sued by Swiss company MONEC Holding Ltd. The lawsuit was filed in a Virginia court on Monday, accusing Apple of patent infringement, unfair trade practices, monopolization, and tortious interference in regards to its “Electronic device, preferably an electronic book” patent from January 2002 ( 6,335,678 ). At issue is the iPhone’s ability to download and display digital, electronics ...

Apple Sued for Marketing iPhone as Book Reader
Wired: Gadget Lab — A Switzerland-based communication firm on Monday filed a lawsuit against Apple, alleging that the corporation is committing patent infringement, unfair trade practices, monopolization and tortious interference by promoting the iPhone as a touchscreen book reader. In its 7-page complaint [pdf], Monec Holding Ltd, a business that develops and markets data transmission tools for mobile electronics, cites a patent it filed seven years ago titled "Electronic device, preferably an electronic book." The patent describes a lightweight electronic device with a touchscreen LCD display for reading e-books. The firm claims Apple is violating the patent by distributing reader applications through the App Store — ...

Firma suíça processa a Apple por promover o iPhone como leitor de eBooks
MacMagazine — Vai entender: a MONEC Holding, uma firma de comunicações suíça, está processando a Apple por promover o iPhone como “um leitor touchscreen de livros digitais” — um conceito que ela teria patenteado há mais de sete anos, segundo a CNET. Ao meu ver, a recente chegada de um app do Kindle não é coincidência, visto que títulos semelhantes já existem por lá desde o ano passado. A promotoria alega que a fabricante de Cupertino não só infringiu sua patente — de número 6.335.678, conquistada em 1º de janeiro de 2002 —, como também pratica comércio desleal, monopólio e algo chamado tortious interference (saiba mais na Wikipedia). Aparentemente, ...

Apple hit with lawsuit over iPhone as e-book reader
textually.org — ... Monec accuses the iPhone maker of "patent infringement, unfair trade practices, monopolization, and tortious interference for allegedly treading on its January 2002 patent No. 6,335,678 titled 'Electronic device, preferably an electronic book. ...