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Title: Florida man sues Apple for $10 billion for 'stealing' his iPhone invention from 1992 Post by: HCK on July 02, 2016, 04:05:15 pm Florida man sues Apple for $10 billion for 'stealing' his iPhone invention from 1992
<article> <section class="page"> <p> A Florida man has accused Apple of infringing a 1992 patent on an “electronic reading device” that, in our view, looks nothing like the iPhone. He’s asking for $10 billion in damages. No, this isn’t an article from The Onion. It’s real life.</p><p> Thomas Ross included drawings of his device, a boxy rectangle with a screen and physical keyboard, in his court filing in Florida Southern District Court, which was obtained by The Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/06/29/man-who-claims-he-invented-iphone-in-1992-sues-apple-for-10bn/). As you may recall, the original iPhone was the first smartphone without a physical keyboard. No matter, Ross says he was the first person “to have created a novel combination of media and communication tools.”</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3089886/legal/florida-man-sues-apple-for-10-billion-for-stealing-his-iphone-invention-from-1992.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Florida man sues Apple for $10 billion for 'stealing' his iPhone invention from 1992 (http://www.macworld.com/article/3089886/legal/florida-man-sues-apple-for-10-billion-for-stealing-his-iphone-invention-from-1992.html#tk.rss_all) |