http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/03/apple-atandt-hit-with-lawsuit-over-iphones-visual-voicemail-feat/ Engadget Mobile Comments for Apple, AT&T hit with lawsuit over iPhone's Visual Voicemail feature http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/03/apple-atandt-hit-with-lawsuit-over-iphones-visual-voicemail-feat/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/03/apple-atandt-hit-with-lawsuit-over-iphones-visual-voicemail-feat/Dec 3rd 2007 4:20PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/03/apple-atandt-hit-with-lawsuit-over-iphones-visual-voicemail-feat/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/03/apple-atandt-hit-with-lawsuit-over-iphones-visual-voicemail-feat/
Come on... that would mean there is probably someone out there with the patent to listen to voice mails in alphabetical order based on your address book entries?

I think it is a common sense thing that someone would eventually want to be able to select which messages they listened to. They shouldn't have been issued a patent in the first place. The USPTO is getting out of hand...]]>Dec 3rd 2007 4:32PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/03/apple-atandt-hit-with-lawsuit-over-iphones-visual-voicemail-feat/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/03/apple-atandt-hit-with-lawsuit-over-iphones-visual-voicemail-feat/
Please send $36.00 for each infringement.

KTHXBYE]]>Dec 3rd 2007 9:24PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/03/apple-atandt-hit-with-lawsuit-over-iphones-visual-voicemail-feat/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/03/apple-atandt-hit-with-lawsuit-over-iphones-visual-voicemail-feat/Dec 3rd 2007 9:54PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/03/apple-atandt-hit-with-lawsuit-over-iphones-visual-voicemail-feat/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/03/apple-atandt-hit-with-lawsuit-over-iphones-visual-voicemail-feat/Dec 3rd 2007 5:22PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/03/apple-atandt-hit-with-lawsuit-over-iphones-visual-voicemail-feat/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/03/apple-atandt-hit-with-lawsuit-over-iphones-visual-voicemail-feat/Dec 3rd 2007 5:26PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/03/apple-atandt-hit-with-lawsuit-over-iphones-visual-voicemail-feat/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/03/apple-atandt-hit-with-lawsuit-over-iphones-visual-voicemail-feat/
Seriously, I really, really hate patent trolls. No telling how many good ideas have been shelved at apple and other companies just because they researched it and decided the current available patents were too risky.

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and AOL too!]]>Dec 3rd 2007 10:17PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/03/apple-atandt-hit-with-lawsuit-over-iphones-visual-voicemail-feat/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/12/03/apple-atandt-hit-with-lawsuit-over-iphones-visual-voicemail-feat/
"[...] Apple CEO Steve Jobs bragged about the more than 200 patents backing up the iPhone."

"Just as the Macintosh was a breakthrough in 1984 for its mouse, and the iPod in 2001 for its click wheel, the iPhone's stroke of genius is this new 'multi-touch' technology," he said, according to The Economist. “And boy have we patented it."
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