Klausner Technologies Sues HTC for Visual Voicemail Patent Infringement

Klausner Technologies recently announced that it had filed suit against the Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation. According to the company, the handset vendor is infringing its patent in Visual Voicemail technologies. Moreover, the company also revealed that the handset that infringed the patent was the MyTouch 3G.

The lawsuit is based on the launch of HTC' MyTouch 3G mobile phones, available for purchase in the United States market via wireless carrier T-Mobile, which, according to Klausner Technologies, use its Visual Voicemail patented technology. At the same time, the company notes that other HTC devices that include Visual Voicemail features are covered under Klausner Technologies Visual Voicemail patent licenses, which were granted to wireless carriers for the Visual Voicemail services they offer to users.

“Intellectual property gives meaning and structure to the greatest resource of all - human imagination. Songwriters collect royalties for the songs they compose, playwrights for the plays they write and inventors for the patents they create,” said Judah Klausner, Klausner Technologies' president. The lawsuit has been filed in federal court in the Eastern District of Texas by the California law firm of Dovel & Luner, the company added.

Klausner Technologies has a number of 27 Visual Voicemail patent licensees in markets like U.S., Europe and Asia. Among these licensees, we can count major U.S. and European wireless services providers, along with mobile phone manufacturers, cable/VOIP providers, and other companies that offer Visual Voicemail services. For the time being, HTC hasn't commented on the newly announced patent infringement suit from Klausner Technologies.

This is not the first suit filed against HTC on various patent infringement claims. One of the most recent such lawsuit was filled by Apple against the handset vendor. The Cupertino-based company claims that certain Android-based phones from HTC infringe several of its patents regarding mobile user interfaces and other technologies related to mobile devices.