Interval Licensing, LLC, owned by Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, today filed a complaint for patent infringement against numerous technology companies, including AOL, Google, Apple, Facebook, Yahoo, and Netflix. Interestingly, the patents asserted as being infringed were filed over ten years ago, when the Internet landscape was much different. An example of one of the patents alleged to be infringed is U.S. Patent No. 6,263,507 which involves a method for aggregating and presenting information.
The complaint, which was filed today in federal district court, is provided below:
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