Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is settling an intellectual property claim concerning patents for visual voicemail, according to Judah Klausner, the “serial inventor” who hold the patents relating to the technology in the United States, Europe and Asia, Reuters reports. Neither company disclosed the terms of the deal, or which specific services were affected by the patents. But Google owns two services that could be affected by them: its Web-based phone services that it acquired when it bought start-up Grand Central, and Android, its operating system for mobile phones. Klausner also declined to tell Reuters to “what degree the agreement covered Android software when it was sub-licensed by other parties.” This could be a worry for handset makers who use Android and for those wireless carriers who sell Android based phones. Klausner sued Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and AT&T (NYSE: T) for $360 million for violating the same patents; claiming Apple infringed its patents as iPhone’s maker, while AT&T was being accused of patent infringement for selling the device. Apple and AT&T settled the suit last summer.

In a separate announcement, T-Mobile has agreed to license Klausner’s European visual voicemail patents in 17 European countries. The deal covers the new visual voicemail service that T-Mobile Germany unveiled last week, that will be available to all of its phones that can support it, not just the iPhone.

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