Apple (AAPL) Sued Over Allegations of Violating 13 SanDisk Patents

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) is said to have been sued for infringing on 13 SanDisk (Nasdaq: SNDK) patents.

PatentlyApple said Thursday that Ireland's Longitude Licensing Ltd and Luxembourg's Longitude Flash Memory Systems S.a.r.l. have filed a joint patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. The group is suing over the patents that they new own.

The patent infringement case brought against Apple by the plaintiffs includes 13 patents as noted here: 6,763,424, 7,970,987, 8,316,177, 6,968,421, 7,657,702, 7,818,490, 7,012,835, 6,831,865, 7,224,607, 8,050,095, 6,510,488, 7,181,611 and 7,120,729.

Apple is down 3.4 percent today.

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