Man Sues Apple: Pennsylvania Resident Files Suit Against Tech Giant Over Alleged Patent Infringement [VIDEO]
A Pennsylvania man has filed a lawsuit against Apple on Thursday, claiming that the tech giant's website, which utilizes a display carousel featuring selected devices and events, infringes upon a patent he filed back in 2008. The plaintiff, Samuel Lit, is alleging that his 2008 patent, which covers web carousel technology, is being used without his permission by Apple.
Lit's patent features an "information display system and method," which takes information from a website's server to a web page and displays it in a carousel design. The patent also covers "a database comprising storage and retrieval functionally for statistical and financial information," which is exhibited by the contents that are being displayed on the carousel.
Since the official Apple website, which has been using the carousel for some time now, features rotating banners for select products, Lit asserts that the tech giant is infringing on his patent. Currently, the Apple website features four items in its carousel, the iPhone 6s, iPad Pro, Apple Watch, and the 2016 MacBook.
With his patent allegedly being infringed by the tech giant, Lit is demanding that Apple pays him royalties, complete with interest at the maximum rate currently allowed by American law.
Samuel Lit currently resides in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania. A longtime broadcaster who has been involved with information technology for years. He is quite active in the area's tech circles, even hosting a live streaming radio show. Lit also works with network audio solutions.
Apple has been in the center of rather unusual lawsuits recently. Just last month, the Cupertino-based tech giant found itself in the middle of an interesting lawsuit filed by a Florida man who claims that he was the original inventor of Apple's bestselling device, the iPhone.
According to the Florida man, his 1992 sketches, which feature an "electronic reading device," or "ERD," has been infringed by Apple when the tech giant unveiled the iPhone. Unlike Lit, who actually managed to secure the patent, however, the Florida man was not able to pay the necessary fees to fully file his design' patent. Nevertheless, the Florida man is still demanding that Apple pays him $10 billion, plus royalties.
