New lawsuit claims Apple Maps infringed on navigation-related patentsEven Apple Maps is getting its own lawsuit.
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Apple is being sued by New Jersey-based Omnitek about its Apple Maps service.
Omnitek claims Apple infringed on patents relating to how users input start and endpoints for a route.
As reported by AppleInsider, a new lawsuit has been filed against Apple claiming that its Maps app infringes on two different navigation-related patents.
The complaint was filed by New Jersey-based Omnitek in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on Tuesday. The patents in question focus on "providing driving directions without text entry."
Omnitek holds a portfolio of patents, and claims that Apple Maps infringes on technologies described in two of them: U.S. Patent Nos. 8,645,057 and 8,224,569. Both are focused on software-based driving directions, and detail methods of providing driving directions without text entry.
The technology enables users to use methods other than text to select start...
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New lawsuit claims Apple Maps infringed on navigation-related patents
