{"id":44467,"date":"2010-08-28T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/28\/apple-google-facebook-others-sued-over-web-patents\/"},"modified":"2010-08-28T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T12:41:00","slug":"apple-google-facebook-others-sued-over-web-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/28\/apple-google-facebook-others-sued-over-web-patents.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple, Google, Facebook, Others Sued over Web Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A firm owned by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen today sued Apple, Facebook, Google, YouTube, and seven other companies, charging them with infringing patents filed more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n

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Google and Facebook blasted the lawsuit as “unfortunate” and “without merit,” reports Reuters, sourcing Computerworld.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The complaint, filed Friday morning in a Seattle federal court, named AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo and Google’s YouTube.<\/p>\n

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AOL, Apple, Google and Yahoo were each charged with four claims of patent infringement, while Facebook was hit with one. The other eight companies were charged with two claims each.<\/p>\n

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The suit does not name Microsoft , which Allen co-founded with Bill Gates in 1975 but left in 1983 after being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease. Microsoft did not reply to a request asking whether it had licensed some or all of the applicable patents from Allen’s firm.<\/p>\n

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Allen’s lawsuit claimed that the 11 companies violated patents developed by Internal Research, a Silicon Valley research lab he funded in 1992, but which shut its doors in 2000.<\/p>\n

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“This lawsuit against some of America’s most innovative companies reflects an unfortunate trend of people trying to compete in the courtroom instead of the marketplace,” said Google.<\/p>\n

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Allen’s suit seeks unspecified damages, as well as injunctions that would block the accused companies from continuing to use the patented technologies.<\/p>\n

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