“Apple last week joined forces with Google, Facebook, Yahoo and others in an effort to dismiss patent infringement charges brought by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen,” Gregg Keizer reports for Computerworld. “In a federal lawsuit filed last August, an Allen-owned firm claimed that 11 companies, including Apple, Google, YouTube, Facebook, AOL and Yahoo, infringed four patents awarded more than a decade ago.”
“Google led the counter-attack against Allen on Oct. 18 when it filed a motion to dismiss the claims. The motion asserted that Interval had failed to show how Google had infringed the patents, and had not named the technologies used by or the services offered by Google that allegedly violated those patents,” Keizer reports. “‘Interval’s Complaint is so devoid of any facts to support its infringement contentions that it is impossible for Google to reasonably prepare a defense,’ Google [wrote].”
“Apple joined Google’s motion on Oct. 21 with a filing of its own,” Keizer reports. “‘Interval has sued eleven major corporations and made the same bald assertions that each defendant infringes 197 claims in four patents,’ Apple stated. ‘As the U.S. Supreme Court noted in Twombly, it is in this type of situation in which courts should use their ‘power to insist upon some specificity in pleading before allowing a potentially massive factual controversy to proceed.””
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
How do you think he plans to pay for the new wing to the Sci-Fi museum?
just my $0.02
How do you think he plans to pay for the new wing to the Sci-Fi museum?
just my $0.02
Never mind who’s the enemy here, Allen’s lawsuit is just wrong.
Never mind who’s the enemy here, Allen’s lawsuit is just wrong.
Of course a lawsuit should specify from the outset that specific details of infringement. If not then the courts will entertain any useless notion which reminds me of my two young kids fighting in the back seat of the car.
Daddy…make him stop.
Me: What is he doing?
Daddy…he looked at me.
Sheeeeeesh
Of course a lawsuit should specify from the outset that specific details of infringement. If not then the courts will entertain any useless notion which reminds me of my two young kids fighting in the back seat of the car.
Daddy…make him stop.
Me: What is he doing?
Daddy…he looked at me.
Sheeeeeesh
And the lawyers grow richer………….
And the lawyers grow richer………….
Good old Twombly!
Good old Twombly!
To Allen and his lawyers I say, “A plague on both your houses.” And to the rest of us, “All are punishéd!”
To Allen and his lawyers I say, “A plague on both your houses.” And to the rest of us, “All are punishéd!”