Apple sued for promoting iPhone as eBook reader

From Apple Insider -

Switzerland-based MONEC Holding Ltd has filed a complaint with a Virginia district court against Apple of patent infringement, unfair trade practices, monopolization, and tortious interference for allegedly treading on its January 2002 patent No. 6,335,678 titled "Electronic device, preferably an electronic book."

The firm alleges Apple's move to distribute digital book reading apps through the App Store directly violates its patent, which describes a "light-weight" electronic device with a "touch-screen" LCD-display having the "dimensions such that [...] approximately one page of a book can be illustrated at normal size, this display being integrated in a flat, frame-like housing."