Paul Allen sues major technology giants
Posted on 28. Aug, 2010 by Allen Smith in Business
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen mulls on suing big technology companies which apparently includes giants such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, eBay, Netflix, Staples, Youtube, Office Max, Apple and Office Depot
Billionaire Paul alleges that these technology majors infringed on the four Web technology patents that are held by Microsoft’s Interval Licensing LLC.
The Interval Licensing LLC filed a legal suit in the Seattle US District Court against the companies for aforesaid reason.
Interval Licensing owns patents from the Interval Research, a technology R&D that is owned by Paul Allen. He co-founded the company with David Liddle in the ’90s. According to the company the patents that are violated form the key to functioning of e-commerce as well as search companies. According to David Postman, spokesperson to Paul Allen, the suit is to safeguard company’s investment in the innovation.
