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Title: New lawsuit claims Apple Maps infringed on navigation-related patents Post by: HCK on January 27, 2021, 04:05:18 pm New lawsuit claims Apple Maps infringed on navigation-related patents
Even Apple Maps is getting its own lawsuit. What you need to know 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... Source: New lawsuit claims Apple Maps infringed on navigation-related patents (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/bdPAgdsFYY4/new-lawsuit-claims-apple-maps-infringed-navigation-related-patents) |