Bell Labs descendant sues Apple for infringing on clutch of patents

Apple was hit with yet another patent infringement lawsuit on Wednesday, with Bell Northern Research, a distant descendant of Bell Labs, leveraging multiple properties related to basic mobile wireless technology against the iPhone maker.

Lodged with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, BNR's complaint brings claims from a total of ten patents to bear against Apple's iPhone, iPad and related wireless products.BNR cites alleged infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 8,204,554, 7,319,889, 8,416,862, 7,957,450, 7,564,914, 6,963,129, 6,858,930, 7,039,435, 8,396,072 and a re-issue of patent no. 7,990,842. The patents-in-suit detail methods of saving power in mobile devices, MIMO beamforming, semiconductor packaging, chip packages with heat spreaders and general cellular communications technologies.

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