DSS Technology Management, a leading security technologies developer has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division today. The patent infringement lawsuit concerns two patents relating to the use of wireless peripheral devices.
Apple has been accused of infringing patents in providing wireless Bluetooth connections to a plurality of its peripheral devices including its iMac, Mac mini, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, iPod nano and the forthcoming Mac Pro.
DSS allegedly charged Apple of infringing United States Patents 6,128,290 and 5,699,357, both of which are entitled “Personal Data Network” and which disclose systems and methods of using low power wireless peripheral devices.
DSS said it acquired the ‘290 and ‘357 Patents in the third quarter from two different owners which covered semiconductor manufacturing and the use of low-power Bluetooth peripherals as part of an effort to expand its patent portfolio to enable DSS’s secure Sensorshield, its facilities monitoring product, and to support R&D to develop dedicated peripheral devices that run DSS’s digital brand protection platform, AuthentiSuite read the press release.
DSS is claiming for damages that may include lost profits because of use of the inventions in the said patents.
