Apple’s iPhone may have yet another legal impediment to its birth and release to the market as UK-based sensor manufacturer Quantum Research has threatened to sue Apple over a rear-surface touch screen technology included within the iPhone.
“The description of the iPhone suggests it uses a rear-surface touch screen, and has proximity sensing which can tell if it is held to the ear. That’s a Quantum Research capability,” said Duncan Byran, licensing director for the company in a phone interview with Electronics Weekly.
Quantum Research is already involved with another lawsuit against Apple since December of 2005 regarding technologies found within the iPod’s click wheel device – specifically capacitive sensing technology it claims are found within its patents.
Apple’s iPhone may have yet another legal impediment to its birth and release to the market as UK-based sensor manufacturer Quantum Research has threatened to sue Apple over a rear-surface touch screen technology included within the iPhone.
“The description of the iPhone suggests it uses a rear-surface touch screen, and has proximity sensing which can tell if it is held to the ear. That’s a Quantum Research capability,” said Duncan Byran, licensing director for the company in a phone interview with Electronics Weekly.
Quantum Research is already involved with another lawsuit against Apple since December of 2005 regarding technologies found within the iPod’s click wheel device – specifically capacitive sensing technology it claims are found within its patents.