Apple's iPhone found to infringe Sony, Nokia calling patents

Apple's iPhone found to infringe Sony, Nokia calling patents: A federal jury in Delaware today found Apple's iPhone infringes on three patents held by MobileMedia, a patent-holding company formed by Sony, Nokia, and MPEG LA.The jury found that the iPhone directly infringed U.S. patent 6,070,068, which was issued to Sony and covers a method for controlling the connecting state of a call; U.S. patent 6,253,075, which covers call rejection; and U.S. patent 6,427,078, which covers a data processing device.