The Chicago based patent troll Ironworks Patents has filed a three count patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. The patents used in this infringement lawsuit are from Nokia, Sony and MobileMedia Ideas who is another patent troll who won a case against Apple a year ago regarding a ring silencing feature on mobile phones. Minority stakes in MobileMedia are owned by Sony and Nokia.

Ironworks official complaint makes known that Apple infringed Sony's Patent RE39,231 with the court awarding Ironworks $10,723,926 ($0.125 per phone), including reasonable royalty damages for iPhone 3, iPhone 4 GSM and iPhone 4 CDMA. Ironworks files their current complaint, in an abundance of caution, for the purpose of preserving its rights to seek damages on those subsequent models of the iPhone.

The Patents-in-Suit were previously owned by MobileMedia Ideas and on April 17, 2017, Ironworks filed an unopposed motion to Substitute Party and took over the ongoing litigation against Apple. Conveniently on June 15, 2017, the court issued a Final Judgement in favor of Ironworks Patents against Apple as noted earlier.

Ironworks is now extending the claim that the patents that Apple previously infringed now extend to the iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 6s Plus. For more details from this latest patent infringement case, Patently Apple provides you with a full Scribd document.  

Ironworks Patents, LLC, V. Apple by Jack Purcher on Scribd

The patent infringement case presented in today's report was filed in the Delaware District Court, Wilmington Office. At present, no Judge has been assigned to the case.

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