{"id":15160,"date":"2016-07-13T10:51:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T14:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=15160"},"modified":"2016-07-13T10:51:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T14:51:08","slug":"apple-faces-patent-lawsuit-over-iphones-battery-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/13\/apple-faces-patent-lawsuit-over-iphones-battery-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Faces Patent Lawsuit Over iPhone&rsquo;s Battery Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2016\/07\/12\/somaltus-llc-vs-apple-battery-system\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2016\/07\/12\/somaltus-llc-vs-apple-battery-system\/\">\n<p>Somaltus, LLC has filed a complaint against Apple today in an Eastern Texas district court, accusing the iPhone maker of infringing upon its 2010 patent related to complex battery technologies. The small Frisco, Texas-based firm also filed lawsuits against Asus, Lenovo, Samsung, Sony, and Toshiba over the same patent.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, it appears that the infringement claim at least partially relates to the iPhone&rsquo;s process of charging in fast-charge mode until the battery reaches 80% capacity, and then adjusting to trickle-charge mode above 80% capacity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wasn&rsquo;t Apple doing that with PowerBooks in the 90s?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rossignol: Somaltus, LLC has filed a complaint against Apple today in an Eastern Texas district court, accusing the iPhone maker of infringing upon its 2010 patent related to complex battery technologies. The small Frisco, Texas-based firm also filed lawsuits against Asus, Lenovo, Samsung, Sony, and Toshiba over the same patent. [&#8230;] Specifically, it appears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,1273,41,209,40],"class_list":["post-15160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-iphone-6s","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal","tag-patents"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15161,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160\/revisions\/15161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}