Saturday, November 22, 2008

Facebook Sued For Patent Infringement

According to this, Facebook is sued by Leader Technologies for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 7,139,761.The patent generally relates to a data management tool.
According to the press release, Leader Technologies seeks:

  • damages and
  • an injunction against Facebook for its willful infringement.

Other Links:
Techdirt
VentureBeat

1 comments:

Patent Infringement said...

If it's a data management tool, i wonder why Leader is not suing other social networking sites/companies.