Paul Allen sues multiple parties
by Mike, posted on August 28, 2010
Paul Allen is perhaps best known as the co-founder of Microsoft, Inc. But now he is known as the plaintiff in a lawsuit against not one, but 11 companies, including Google and Apple. The lawsuit was filed through his own company, Interval Licensing, LLC. He claims in the lawsuit that AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo, and YouTube have infringed upon patents he controls the rights to.
The patents were not as the result of his own inventions, but they came through work done by Interval Research, a software lab that Allen co-founded. A spokesman for the company says the lawsuit was necessary in order to protect their interests. No representatives for the companies involved were available for comment.
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