Apple Accused of Patent Infringement Over AirTag Tracking Tech

Apple Inc.‘s AirTag infringes MuTag Tracking LLC’s electronic tag patent, a federal lawsuit alleged.

MuTag sued Apple in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, accusing the world’s first $3 trillion company of developing and selling tracking devices that violate MuTag’s exclusive right to commercialize its patented, artificial intelligence-driven system for helping users locate lost items.

AirTags allegedly feature 17 claimed limitations of MuTag’s US Patent No. 10,154,379, including a method to collect user behavioral data from another device and receive a beacon notification from that device after moving more than a certain threshold distance ...