On October 11, 2013, the Texas-based company released iDiversicons emoji on Apple’s App Store, with versions compatible to iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.
CCI holds more than 20 copyrights protecting various emoji characters and has three pending patent functions. Apple allegedly closely copied Mrs. Parrot’s unique five-skin tone keyboard pallet app and many of her copyrighted emoji’s.
In the lawsuit, CCI described Mrs. Parrott’s 2013, 2014, and 2015 meetings and communications with the Unicode Consortium, the group liable for the emoji customary. Apple is a member of the consortium.
In the meetings, CCI was pursuing a partnership deal with Apple for iDiversions. In the course of those interactions, she gave two senior Apple software engineers, a very close look at her technology. She even provided one of them with a thumb-drive of iDiversicons creations and developed some of the new emojis at their behest.
Apple released its emoji designs with 5 pores and skin tone pallet selector as an addition to iOS 8.3 in 2015. CCI alleged that the tech giant’s designs are near identical to her five-skin tone keyboard modifier pallet.
