Apple faces new lawsuits over its popular aledgedly, including one asking a court to award $5 million because of advertising claims.
San Diego, Calif. resident Peter Keller named both Apple and AT&T in a lawsuit alleging fraud and deceit. Keller’s lawsuit charges the maker of the iPhone 3G and its exclusive American carrier, created false and misleading advertising claims regarding the speed of the 3G network.
“Apple and AT&T have engaged in a collaborated scheme to deceive plantiff and other consumers, since the iPhone 3G and AT&T 3G Network is faulty and rarely provides 3G connectivity to its customers,” the lawsuit reads.
Keller is asking the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of California to require the two companies to change the iPhone 3G advertising and product labeling, as well as hold Apple and AT&T income from iPhone 3G sales, in trust.
In another legal challenge, a California company is suing Apple, charging the iPhone infringes on a patent on displaying Web pages on mobile devices.
EMG Technologies, based in Century City, Calif., is asking a district court in Eastern Texas to award unspecified damages for alledgedly infringing patent No. 7,44196 awarded Oct. 21.
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
