Unwired Planet Sues Apple and Google Over Patents

Unwired Planet today announced that it has filed separate lawsuits against Apple and Google for violating its intellectual property. The company alleges that each company is violating 10 patents, for a total of 20 patent complaints. The lawsuit against Apple names devices such as the iPhone, iPad, and iPod; applications such as iTunes and the App Store; and services such as Siri, Apple Maps, Safari, and iAd. The patents themselves cover a wide range of technologies, including detecting and connecting to wireless data networks, server-based speech recognition, and offering location data to mobile devices, among others. In its case against Google, Unwired Planet names a large selection of Google services, such as the Google Play Store, Google AdWords, Google Search, Google Maps, Google Wallet, and many others. The patents it accuses Google of violating incude those that cover providing graphical location data to mobile devices, method and apparatus for protecting identities of mobile devices on a wireless network, and the systems and methods necessary to connect devices via NFC. The lawsuits were file in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada.

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