Comments on: Apple settles patent suit over iPhone visual voice mail

Klausner Technologies can now count Apple and AT&T as licensees of its technology after convincing them to settle a patent-infringement lawsuit filed last year over the iPhone.

[JohnSegal]

You can download Klausner Technologies's patent here at http://www.patentretriever.com

[tschiltz]

I love it - Apple isn't any different than M$. Looks like they were forced to pay for technology that they stole. So, Apple=M$ What do you say to this, fanboys?

[tschiltz]

I love it - Apple isn't any different than M$. Looks like they were forced to pay for technology that they stole. So, Apple=M$ What do you say to this, fanboys?

[slaingod]

That you are trolling?

It is very difficult to know what new techniques and 'business method' patents are out there, and what the 'inventors' think they cover. As a matter of course, most businesses never look to see which patents they may be infringing, as to do so and NOT find one that they are later found to be infringing could be construed as 'willful' infringement.

That said, I don't really see how this patent is any less obvious than a list of missed calls with caller id...unless that is patented too.

[Penguinisto]

"Nice troll, idiot."?

[aka_tripleB]

tschiltz is just stating the fact that Apple is starting to act just like what Apple freaks claim Microsoft acts like. You can't bash someone and expect to go unphased when the tables are turned. As Apple grows, it is just showing that it doesn't "Think" as "Different" from Microsoft as people want to believe.

[Seaspray0]

Given that the technology was also used by vonage, I can pretty much assume it's more of a patent on a process or concept rather than any particular piece of code or hardware. Vonage and the iphone are not exactly similar in hardware. I wouldn't jump the gun on saying apple "stole" it. They could have developed it all on their own with no idea that it was already pantented. There are examples in history. Both Marconi and Tesla developed sending information by radio waves. Marconi was first to the patent. This type of situation happens quite a bit these days and apple and microsoft are no exceptions to that.

[Penguinisto]

Err, you can only patent the process... patenting specific software is impossible. Patenting hardware is possible, but the patent is limited to that particular bit of hardware design. IMHO the "software patent" (where you're patenting a process, often an obvious one) should simply not be allowed, or at least should have the restriction that you must make and market software that uses the process you've patented (which would wipe out the patent troll companies overnight).

[AppleSuxLeo]

I`m so sick and tired of Mr Whipple lying at these Apple demos and saying they invented all this new technology and "patented the H*** out of it" , and it turns out to be a lie.

[skeptical58]

Dear AppleSuxLeo -- if Apple annoys you so, why waste your time reading articles about Apple? Get a life... Read about things you actually enjoy.

BTW, Apple does file for and receive a LOT of patents. As Seaspray0 points out, sometimes you file and someone has beaten you to the punch with a similar patent. It happens in every business. But the list of patents Apple has been granted is pretty huge.

Give your blood pressure a rest. Read about something you like for a change.

[anti3g]

The actual price of the new apple iphone 3G = $399!

The published price being advertised all over for the new apple iphone 3G is $199?what they are not telling you is that price is only for new ATT customers and those current ATT customers who happen to be eligible for an equipment upgrade (according to ATT, upgrade eligibility is ?generally? determined by the amount of time remaining on a current contract). For all those current ATT customers who do not happen to be at the end of their contract, the actual price for you is $399 plus an $18 upgrade fee along with a new 2-year contract. ATT is penalizing their long-time, account in good standing, customers a whopping $200. Why is the actual price of the new iphone not being advertised for what it is?$399? It?s the same price as the old iphone with an increase in the data plan.

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[gregrt]

I love it when they system works, and big companies get caught. Big companies trying to make profit on the back of others. ARRGGG