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Klausner Technology has reached a settlement with Apple and AT&T
in the lawsuit filed last year in December. At stake was the visual voicemail
technology, which patent was the property of Klausner Technology.
In a statement for Reuters, Judah Klausner said Apple had agreed to
license the technology, but he didn’t disclose any financial details.
The visual voicemail feature allows users of the hit mobile
communications gadget to scroll through a list of voicemails and prioritize
their listening order rather than having to play all of them in the order they
were received.
In its lawsuit filed in December 2007 in the Eastern District of
Texas in the United States District Court, Klausner Technology claimed that Apple
infringed on its patent and demanded a fine of $360 million.
Klausner Technology cited in this lawsuit two U.S. Patents that are
about “a telephone answering device linking displayed data with recorded audio
message.”
In the same lawsuit Klausner Technology named Comcast, Cablevision
and Skype, as the company claims that these firms also use the same patents. In
their case Klausner Technology demanded $300 million from each company.
In its statement for Reuters, Judah Klausner said that an agreement has
been reached with Skype as well and that there are ongoing discussions with
Comcast and Cablevision.
Klausner Technology is a company founded by Judah Klausner who
claims also to have invented the electronic organizer and the Personal Digital
Assistant (PDA).
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