US jury says iPhone infringes on three MobileMedia patents

A jury in a US court in Delaware has just ruled that Apple's iPhone infringes on three patents held by software patent holding company MobileMedia. According to its website, MobileMedia itself owns about 300 technology patents relating to the usage of smartphones and other mobile computing devices — many of which were originally granted to Sony and Nokia. According to Bloomberg, it first brought its lawsuit against Apple back in 2010, claiming the smartphone maker violated 14 of its patents, including those covering screen rotation, rejecting calls, and "transmitting GPS coordinates" as part of getting mapping directions. Eventually, the patents being ruled on were whittled down to three, Apple failed to have the case thrown out, and the lawsuit was able to proceed to a jury verdict.
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