Apple hit with Siri patent lawsuit

Apple has been targeted in a patent infringement complaint centring on its voice recognition technology Siri.

In a lawsuit filed at the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Dot 23 Technologies, a Texas-based company, accused Apple of infringing three patents.

The patents, US numbers 6,917,802; 7,245,903; and 6,405,029, all relate to “among other things, voice control of wireless telephones”, according to the complaint, filed yesterday, January 20.

Among the Apple products directly named in the complaint are the iPhone 4, 5 and 6.

“These products infringe at least one claim of the [patents], at least by providing the capability to use voice recognition to program the operation of the voice recognition and voice dialing aspects of an iPhone 6 with Siri,” the complaint alleges.

Dot 23 is seeking damages and attorneys’ fees.