Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen on Friday filed a patent suit against 11 technology and e-commerce companies, including Apple, Google, Yahoo and eBay.
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Paul Allen is back with an amended complaint in his patent suit against some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley including Apple, Google and Facebook.
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Allen's Interval Licensing LLC filed a complaint today in the federal court, alleging that they have infringed on four patents held by Interval.
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The other defendants are AOL, Facebook, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples and YouTube.
"The patents in the lawsuit cover fundamental web technologies first developed at Interval Research in the 1990s, which the company believes are being infringed by major e-commerce and web search companies," Interval said in a pres relase.
"These are patents developed by and for Interval," said David Postman, spokesman for Paul Allen.
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