Figure: The new function Emergency SOS added in the Apple watchOS 3 of Apple Smart Watch.
In this new lawsuit discovered by the blog site Patently Apple, Zomm claims to have developed and applied for the SOS function patent. In this patent, as long as the remote device button is pressed, this function can help to call the local emergency service. However, after "getting close enough to Zomm and stealing the company's technology", Apple applied it to its watch without authorization.
Zomm alleged that at CES 20 10, the company successfully launched a Bluetooth device called "Wireless Leash" to help users ensure that their smartphones are nearby. Apple contacted Zomm and asked him to develop iPhone accessories for Apple, and Zomm agreed.
Photo: wireless belt launched by former Apple supplier Zomm
After reaching a confidentiality agreement with Apple, Zomm began to develop Wireless Leash Plus for iPhone and told Apple that it was planning to develop watches, bracelets and other wearable devices. The company also revealed a patent application function, that is, users can automatically call local emergency services from anywhere in the world without touching their mobile phones after pressing the wireless traction rope button for three seconds.
Zomm said that Wireless Leash Plus sold well, but made little money for the company, because the signed agreement was more beneficial to Apple. A few months after Zomm first launched Lifestyle Connect, an emergency dialing product at CES 20 12, Apple terminated the Wireless Leash Plus cooperation agreement for its retail stores.
However, Apple began to order senior leaders, developers and scientists from various internal departments to develop similar functions. Zomm, which was skeptical about these orders, said that it took the initiative to inform Apple executives that it had successfully applied for a patent for emergency service functions and asked whether the two companies could continue to cooperate, but did not get any response.
2065438+In June 2006, Apple revealed that it would add "SOS" function to the Apple Watch running watchOS 3, including the function described in Zomm patent, and claimed to be protected by the confidentiality agreement of the two companies. Zomm pointed out that this function is not called "emergency 9 1 1" because, as described in Zomm's patent, this function can determine the emergency service number of the user's location before making a call.
Zomm asked Apple to pay compensation for patent infringement and unfair competition, as well as injunction relief and legal fees. The case was initially filed in the Southern District Court of new york, but was later re-filed in the Northern District Court of California.
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