Facebook, the popular social networking site, may soon be squaring off in federal court against claims the site's design infringes on a patent filed several years before Facebook was launched in 2004. Plaintiff Cross Atlantic Capital Partners claims it holds the rights to a patent for an Internet-based "community for users with common interests to interact in" that was invented in 2000. If the suit succeeds, Facebook could be ordered to pay millions in damages and maybe face an injunction that could shut the site down.
April 02, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Facebook, the wildly popular social networking site, may soon be squaring off in federal court in Philadelphia to defend itself against claims that the site’s design infringes on a patent that was filed several years before Facebook was launched in 2004.
In the suit, plaintiff Cross Atlantic Capital Partners, also known as XACP, claims that it holds the rights to a patent for an Internet-based “community for users with common interests to interact in” that was invented in 2000.
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