“A Delaware based company called Streetspace has launched a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple and ten other defendants including Google for violating their 2005 patent titled ‘Method and System for Providing Personalized Online Services and Advertisement in Public Spaces,'” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple. “As you could tell by the name of this patent, Streetspace believes that Apple’s iAd service is in clear violation of their patent, as is Apple’s Quattro Wireless, which is also named in the lawsuit.”
Purcher reports, “According to court documents, StreetSpace alleges that Apple has been and is infringing, contributing to infringement and/or inducing others to infringe one or more claims of patent 6,847,969 (also referred to as the ‘969 patent) literally and/or under the doctrine of equivalents by making, using, selling, importing and/or offering for sale a method and/or system for providing personalized and/or targeted online advertising services based on location, users’ profiles and/or usage history, such as iAds, and/or making, using, selling, importing and/or offering for sale the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch and other products and/or services that deliver or are capable of delivering targeted and/or personalized advertising services based on location, users’ profiles and/or usage history (collectively, ‘Apple’s Accused Products and Services.’)”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]