“Apple, AT&T and several others have been named in a new patent infringement lawsuit, presumably for their connection to Shazam, a maker of music identification software distributed under the same name for the iPhone and several other mobile devices,” Slash Lane reports for AppleInsider.
“The 8-page complaint, filed Tuesday by Tune Hunter, Inc. in the patent litigation-friendly Marshall Division of Texas, broadly alleges that nearly a dozen tech companies are contributing to infringement of is US patent No. 6,941,275 for a “Music identification system” granted in September of 2005,” Lane reports.
“In its complaint, Tune Hunter doesn’t specify its gripes with each individual defendant. Instead, it charges them broadly with contributing to the infringement or inducing the infringement of its patent ‘by making, using, selling and/or offering to sell, and/or causing others to use […] music identification systems and/or devices that are covered by one or more claims” of its patent,’ Lane reports.
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