A firm run by the man who patented the PDA and electronic organizer has filed a lawsuit against Motorola and Research in Motion, claiming that those corporations violated his patents by implementing visual voicemail features in their devices.

Mobile Burn says that Judah Klausner claims to hold no less than 24 patents related to visual voicemail, and that he has already won settlements from mobile management companies like Verizon, LG, and Google, as well as several others, though the amounts of those settlements have not been disclosed.

At issue are Motorola’s CLIQ smartphone and the Blackberry Bold 9700, which both include versions of visual voicemail. Visual voicemail systems allow users to organize their audio messages via a graphical list, so that they can skip or re-order the messages that they want to listen to.

The Associated Press reports that the two companies’ stocks were unaffected by the announcement, as Motorola and RIM both posted slight upticks in the day’s trading, gaining five and 41 cents to finish at $8.33 and $60.13 respectively.

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