Google and Facebook Sued for Mobile Patent Infringement

Winksite mobile social network company claims that the company owns the intellectual property for enabling users to join social networks from their mobile phones through a patent awarded in October 2009.Winksite claims Google and Facebook had to have known about the patent, the patent application approved in 2004. However,Facebook has a patent for its news feed technology, and Google for location-based, but that doesn’t make the two companies immune to other patent challengers. Google and Facebook are being sued by Winksite over mobile social networking technology.Plaintiff believes that both the social networking and search giant were aware of the patent and they are legally responsible for damages.Winksite is seeking cash damages and an injunction against use of the technology.Both Google and Facebook said they are reviewing the complaint. I think Winksite is looking to get rich, and the company knows Google and Facebook have a lot of money. However, it is not easy to prove that these two giant corporations made this kind of mistake( patent infringement).


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