Apple is one of 36 companies being sued for spam email filtering. InNova claims they invented the technology first.
InNova filed for a lawsuit against a number of well known technology firms including Apple, Google, Dell and Yahoo, claiming
the companies have been using their spam filtering invention without permission for years.
The InNova patent was granted to Robert Uomini, an inventor and mathematician, fifteen years ago when email was still in it's early stages. The patent covers technology used to differentiate between spam email messages and those that users actually want to receive. Uomini is the founder of InNova, however, InNova is a company specialising in patent licensing.
"More than 80 percent of email is spam, which is why companies use
InNova's invention rather than forcing employees to wade
through billions of useless emails. Unfortunately, the defendants
appear to be profiting from this invention without any consideration
for InNova's legal patent rights," said patent-infringement attorney
Christopher Banys in a press release.
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