Paul Allen Files Patent Suit Against Apple, Google, Yahoo, Others

Posted by Soulskill on Friday August 27, 2010 @09:05AM from the going-for-the-gusto dept.

mewshi_nya writes "A firm run by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen filed suit alleging 11 technology companies are violating patents developed at a Silicon Valley lab that Allen financed more than a decade ago. Named in the lawsuit: Apple, Google, AOL, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo and Google's YouTube subsidiary. The suit doesn't name Microsoft, Amazon.com or other tech companies in Seattle where Allen is based, and it doesn't estimate a damage amount. The suit lists violations of four patents (PDF) for technology that appear to be key components of the operations of the companies — and that of e-commerce and Internet search companies in general."

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He can't win by recoiledsnake · 2010-08-27 09:18 · Score: 5, Funny

I have patented suing for patent damages. And I won't license it to him.
Read for yourself:
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220080270152%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20080270152&RS=DN/20080270152

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Re:Why now? by 1729 · 2010-08-27 09:29 · Score: 5, Funny

If I was trying to get money out of AOL, I'd be in a big hurry too!
Me, too!