Another patent lawsuit has been slapped on the face of Apple by an entity that is non ‐ practicing, it is said that this time, the complaint that has been renewed is in regards to the VoIP technology which is used on audio software and Facetime.

The lawsuit was filed by a subsidiary of Straight Path Communications called Straight Path Group at the District Court of North California. It is said that the Face time of Apple is said infringe a product that is called WebPhone which was owned previously by NetSpeak Corporation. The complaint that was made recently was a renewal of the one that was made in 2014 by Straight Path which in 2015 had been dismissed without prejudice.

The properties which are said partly said to cover the audio conferencing and real time video between applications or devices which an IP address that is dynamic in nature that is in question by Straight Path is said the leverage the US Patent which bears the numbers 7,149,208, 6,701,365, 6,131,121, 6,108,704 and 6,009,469, all these claims go back to the year 1995. What seem to be more interesting is the fact that a re‐examination of every patent is also survived by the PTAB or Patient Trial and Appeals Board. This is regards to the challenges that are being faced about the validity.

It is said the properties had been owned by Straight Path and this is also the part which helps in solving the fundamental problem that arises at the time an attempt is being made for communication links to be established either between a pair of computer programs or individual devices alternately. It is also said that methods are provided by the patents to help determine if a particular program is with network or not. It also helps in the identification of the IP address of the program.