Apple sued over iPhone caller ID

by admin March 3, 2008 at 7:55 pm

When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone at Mac World back in January 2007, he told the Apple faithful that his portable status symbol was backed by 200 patents. And the Apple faithful cheered. But that hasn’t prevented an onslaught of iPhone-happy lawsuits.

After all, this is America.

Other patent holders have already sued Steve Jobs and company over the iPhone’s touch screen, its virtual keyboard, and its so-called visual voicemail. And now an inventor named Romek Figa has gone after the handheld’s caller ID feature, insisting it infringes a patent he bagged back in 1990.

Full story: reghardware.co.uk