Intertrust Technology Corporation, a digital rights Management
company that is involved in research, invention, licensing, standardization of
software for trusted computing, owned by Royal Phillips Sony and Stephens
incorporated filed a complaint against Apple Inc. on the 20th of
March, 2013 in Oakland, California for allegedly impinging on 15 patents related
to mobile device security.
Intertrust,
who previously sued Microsoft Corporations over patents said in it’s complaints
filed against the Apple Inc. that Apple’s Iphone; Laptop Computers; Apple
television; App store; Ipod touch and Ipad product lines are built on secure computing technologies developed and patented by
Intertrust. She also claimed that the
software maker licensed the technology the technology with a sum of $440
million in 2004 and Apple’s decision to make use of it without paying for it.s
usage has and will continue to effect substantial harm to the company.
The company demands the court to effect the barring
of further impingement and sales of products that impinge the patent, lost
profit damages; finding out the impingement was willful and a reasonable
royalty. Apple is yet to make any public speech on the certain complaints.