Innovative Automation Targets Apple over iCloud Products

On Friday, November 16, 2012, Innovative Automation (plaintiff) registered a complaint against Apple (defendant) for patent infringement in the U.S. District Court of Texas (case no. 6:12-cv-00882). Innovative Automation’s line of business includes technology development and services. Apple designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers.

The patents involved in this suit are listed below:

Patent Number Current Assignee[1]	Issue Date	Expiration Date[2]	Title
US7174362 Innovative Automation	Feb 06, 2007	Nov 21, 2020	Method and system for supplying products from pre-stored digital data in response to demands transmitted via computer network
US7392283 Innovative Automation	Jun 24, 2008	Nov 21, 2020	Method and system for supplying products from pre-stored digital data in response to demands transmitted via computer network

Note: Table information sourced from MaxVal’s Assignment Database.

As per the complaint, plaintiff alleges that the defendant has infringed their patents by providing iCloud product and service that uses the method of duplicating digital data claimed in the above mentioned patents. iCloud is a cloud storage and cloud computing service that allows users to store data such as music and iOS applications on remote computer servers for download to multiple devices such as iOS-based devices running iOS 5 or later and personal computers running OS X 10.7.2 "Lion" or later, or Microsoft Windows (Windows Vista service pack 2 or later). The service also allows users to wirelessly back-up their iOS devices to iCloud.

The plaintiff in the past has filed suits against the companies listed below:

Company	Case No.	Date Filed	Status
Amazon.com	6:12-cv-00881	11/16/2012	Pending
Spotify	6:12-cv-00883	11/16/2012	Pending
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System	6:11-cv-00445	08/30/2011	Pending
All Pro Solutions	3:11-cv-03413	07/12/2011	Pending
DisCopyLabs	3:11-cv-03411	07/12/2011	Pending
Acutrack	5:11-cv-03412	07/12/2011	Pending

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[1] MaxVal offers Patent Assignment Alert service where subscribers receive email alerts when assignments relating to target applications, patents or entities of interest are recorded.

[2] Expected expiration date.  Patent Term Estimator is a free web-based tool that automatically calculates patent terms and expiration dates for U.S. utility patents.