Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen lodged a patent suit Friday against AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo and Google subsidiary YouTube.Microsoft is noticeably not named and reportedly has no license to the widgetry. It does own a piece of Facebook, however.
The motley 11 are charged with infringing four basic e-commerce and search patents that belong to the Allen-owned Interval Licensing LLC, all that remains of the now defunct Interval Research Corporation that Allen and David Liddle started in 1992 to do advanced next-generation R&D.
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Author: Maureen O'Gara
