A lawsuit has been files in United States District Court for the District of Maryland against Apple and AT&T. Apple has sold over 1.7 million iPhones in just three days but the issue regarding the antenna problem when the phone is held in a certain way has come into light a few days ago.

The lawsuit was filed by Ward & Ward, PLLC and Charles A. Gilman, LLC. on behalf of Kevin McCaffrey, Linda Wrinn and a number of other iPhone 4 customers. Gizmodo reports that the lawsuit focuses on the antenna issues that have plagued early iPhone 4 adopters.

The suit makes several claims:

• General Negligence (APPLE and AT&T)
• Defect in Design, Manufacture, and Assembly (APPLE)
• Breach of Express Warranty (APPLE)
• Breach of Implied Warranty for Merchantability (APPLE and AT&T)
• Breach of Implied Warranty of Fitness for a Particular Purpose (APPLE and AT&T)
• Deceptive Trade Practices (APPLE and AT&T)
• Intentional Misrepresentation (APPLE and AT&T)
• Negligent Misrepresentation (APPLE and AT&T)
• Fraud by Concealment (APPLE and AT&T)

Earlier Steve Jobs took it a bit lightly and arrogantly replied “Just avoid holding it that way” without taking any responsibility while the official response of Apple was to suggest users to use cases available to avoid any signal distortion. Right now Apple has not commented on this issue but we really expect Apple to call back the sold iPhones and fix the issue as soon as possible.