Diamond Fortress has won in Delaware courts over a case of violating an agreement for unmet payments of cryptocurrency under the Everest umbrella. Meanwhile, Apple is being sued by the company claiming the technology giant infringed on a patent of facial expression recognition technology for the security of the messaging system used in Apple’s Memoji app.
The judge gave Diamond Fortress and CEO a crypto consultation
A judge in the Delaware Supreme Court has been awarded Diamond Fortress Technology and CEO Charles Hatcher II with total damages of $ 25 million for violating an agreement on cryptocurrency consulting.
An opinions and orders (Courtesy Law360) said Hatcher was hired by blockchain, cryptocurrency, and biometric identity company EverID to consult on the purchase, integration, and management of the Diamond Fortress fingerprint identification software development kit for smartphones. In 2017, both parties agreed to have Diamond Fortress grant EverID an exclusive license to ONYX for digital and blockchain wallets that close Diamond Fortress’s efforts on the blockchain. He also agreed to compensate Diamond Fortress and Hatcher with EverID tokens during the initial coin offering (ICO).
In February 2021, the EverID ICO occurred, but was not received with partial payments to Hatcher and Diamond Fortress, and EverID became a silent radio when contacted by the plaintiffs. The breach of contract created a “novel situation” according to Judge Paul R. Wallace, because no Delaware court has struggled with the question of court counts on cryptocurrency.
EverID, Inc. it is the legal name of Everest platform, which combines the company’s portfolio of decentralized solutions like EverChain, EverWallet, and CRDT. Everest found a valuable client in the form of Oracle in July 2021, to implement blockchain and biometric capabilities for onboarding banking customers.
The judge concluded that damages should be awarded at the peak price of EverID tokens at $ 2.01, and awarded Diamond Fortress $ 20.1 million and Hatcher $ 5.03 million.
Telos Company acquired Diamond Fortress Technologies last August.
Apple was sued for patent infringement on facial expression recognition
Apple sued for allegedly infringing a facial expression recognition patent for a messaging system that plaintiffs claimed used the Memoji feature in iMessage that mimicked the user’s personality and mood with emojis.
In a filing with the U.S. District Court of Eastern Missouri, FaceToFace Biometrics said that its patent ‘Expression Recognition in messaging systems’ dated June 22, 2021, was infringed by Apple by continuing to sell iPhones and iPads in the U.S. included. iMessage with Memoji feature. FaceToFace is suing Apple to “pay adequate compensation to compensate FaceToFace for Defendant’s violations regarding ‘623 Patents“from the sale of the iPhone X to the iPhone 13 Pro Max and the 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro, along with the cost of sales and other infringing attorneys.
Apple Memoji is a feature that captures a user’s face obtained from a selfie or video sample to create a customizable emoticon that borrows features from facial expressions and can be sent via iMessage and Facetime.
In its patent list for FaceToFace, the company details a security system that is said to protect and filter messages on its mobile messaging system with biometrics. The patent will identify facial expressions that analyze a user’s mood and expression to determine if it will deliver more messages from the sender, manage ads, automatically generate emoji correspondence for user emotions, and function as a motion control.
Patently Apple describes FaceToFace as a “patent statement entity,” or a patent troll.
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