Apple is embroiled in yet another patent lawsuit this time with a Taiwanese university.
Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University filed a patent infringement suit against Apple in a U.S. court, according to court documents. The legal battle is over Siri, the iPhone’s “intelligent” personal assistant that uses a speech recognition system. Siri helps users finish tasks using voice commands.
National Cheng Kung, which is seeking undisclosed damages, alleges that Apple is infringing on two U.S. patents that the university was granted in 2007 and 2010.
“NCKU has suffered monetary damages in an amount not yet determined, and will continue to suffer damages in the future unless Apple’s infringing activities are enjoined by this court,” the documents said. Winston O. Huff, a lawyer for the university, filed the documents Friday.
Yama Chen, the university’s legal manager, told Reuters, “We filed that lawsuit in the Texas court because it processes faster and its rulings are usually in favor of patent owners and the compensations are usually higher.”
Apple and National Cheng Kung did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The lawsuit is yet another in a growing number of Apple’s legal battles. Apple and Samsung are in an ongoing legal dispute over design patents. The companies are battling it out in a patent trial, which began Monday.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, Calif., banned sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1, after Apple filed a motion for preliminary injunction in May, claiming the Android tablet infringes on an iPad-related patent.
Koh also granted a preliminary injunction on the sales of Samsung’s Android phone, the Galaxy Nexus.
Shanghai Zhizhen Network Technology, a Chinese tech firm, filed a similar Siri-related claim against Apple in early July, according to reports.
