AVRS, the Arizona company, sued Apple this week, a voice recognition technology company. AVRS believes that Apple's virtual assistant Siri infringes on its own patents. AVRS hopes that the Arizona District Court can hear the case, it requires Apple to pay the amount, the amount is not less than reasonable License fee.
AVRS has obtained a patent in the United States, patent number 7,558,730, which is a user voice recognition and transcription technology that supports heterogeneous protocols. The patent was submitted in 2001, but the company later gave up, resubmitted in 2007, and took it in 2009. To the patent. Siri was launched in 2011 with the iPhone 4s.
From the point of view of prosecution, AVRS believes that Siri can handle voice commands across multiple protocols and multiple operating systems. It is because of its own technology that infringes its patents. AVRS also believes that Apple has long known this patent. It can be traced back to 2013. In other voice recognition patents and other lawsuits, Apple mentioned this patent at least 77 times. In 2015, AVRS hoped to negotiate with Apple to solve the problem, but to no avail, Apple continued to infringe and continued until Nowadays.
AVRS hopes that the Arizona District Court will be able to hear the case. It requires Apple to pay no less than a reasonable license fee. AVRS claims to have introduced voice recognition software as early as 1994, but it did not put the patented technology into any product. Or service, from this point of view, AVRS is very similar to non-implementing entities, that is to say, although it has patents, but does not intend to develop related products and services, the company's original intention is to authorize patents to other companies to use, to obtain licensing fees.
