Intertrust Technologies has filed a lawsuit for patent infringement against Apple in US Federal Court in the Northern District of California. The lawsuit accuses Apple of making products and services that infringe on 15 Intertrust patents on security and distributed trusted computing. The lawsuit covers a broad range of key Apple products and services including iOS devices such as the iPhone and iPad, Mac computers and laptops, Apple TV, and services including iTunes, iCloud, and the Apple App Store.

"Apple makes many great products that use Intertrust's inventions," said Talal Shamoon, Intertrust's chief executive officer. "Our patents are foundational to modern Internet security and trusted computing, and result from years of internal research and development. We are proud of our record of peaceful and constructive licensing with industry leaders. We find it regrettable that we are forced to seek Court assistance to resolve this matter."

Apple has not provided any comment.

Silicon Valley-based Intertrust develops and licenses digital rights management software, which is used to protect content rights for companies that disWe are still offline after tribute music, movies and other digital content.