The Patents Paul Allen’s Suing The Whole World Over

If you haven’t heard, Paul Allen, mostly famous for his early role at Microsoft has sued the entire world over patents field by his company Interval. The Wall Street Journal has a more in-depth look at the patents, and who he’s suing for what. Spoiler: One of them is basically a news aggregator and another is a real time newsfeed, say running across the top of CNN.com. [Wall Street Journal]

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    Si Mon

    Saturday, August 28, 2010 at 4:03 PM

    sounds screwy. if he’s held patents so long on integral components of a modern day web page, why take so long to make a claim?

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