text: Apple beats Voip-Pal's Internet phone-routing lawsuits
  A California federal judge who had previously found internet call-routing patents held by Voip-Pal.com too generalized and abstract has made a similar ruling in two cases in which the communications company had accused Apple and Amazon of infringing similar intellectual property, reports Law360 (a subscription is required to read the entire article).
  Apple lawsuits, Voip-Pal, Messages, FaceTime
  Apple patents, Messages, Siri, macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS
  Apple has scooped up Danish computer vision startup Spektral, according to a paywalled report from Danish newspaper Børsen — as noted by MacRumors.
  Apple, Messages, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac
  Apple has been granted a patent (number 20180173725) for history-based searching for images and graphics with its Messages app in macOS and iOS.
  Apple patents, Messages, macOS, iOS
  Apple patent filing involves 'easy location sharing' in Messages
  Apple has filed for a patent (number 9,998,88) for "easy location sharing" via the Messages app on its macOS, iOS, and watchOS devices. Per the invention, an Apple device detects a location-sharing request from a first participant of a message conversation to share first participant location information with a second participant.