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Telecommunications Apple, AT&T hit with $US360m law suits over iPhone's 'Visual Voicemail' | Apple, AT&T hit with $US360m law suits over iPhone's 'Visual Voicemail' |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 04 December 2007 | |
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Greg Dovel of Dovel & Luner claimed that: "With the signing of each new licensee, we continue to receive further confirmation of the strength of our visual voicemail patents." Klausner says it estimates its claims against each of Apple and AT&T to be worth $US360 million based on damages and estimates future royalties. However it has separately filed suits against Apple & AT&T to the same value. There were suggestions at the time of the iPhone's launch back in January that Apple was heading for trouble with its visual voicemail feature, but from Citrix, not Klausner. The Register UK reported that Citrix had been selling Visual Voicemail software since it acquired Net6 in 2004. According to Wikipedia visual voicemail technology is used by a number of operators and on a number of devices. "In recent months, several companies in the telecommunications space have integrated a visual element into their voicemail services. The most prominent services to offer this are AT&T Mobility with Apple's iPhone, CallWave's cross-platform Mobile Visual Voicemail and SimulScribe's SimulSays for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices. Visual Voicemail-type services are delivered by companies such as SimulScribe, CallWave, GotVoice, PhoneGnome and GrandCentral.{moscomment}
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