Against the Internet giant drowning

Microsoft is one of the founders of large companies demands, including Google, Facebook, Apple, eBay, the patent infringement

Paul Allen - one of the founders of Microsoft, claiming the Internet. Not the entire network, but some of the most popular online companies, from Google, via Facebook and Yahoo, companies like eBay and Netflix. Center of the lawsuit are four patents issued by the interval development laboratory in the mid-'90s, when the company itself was closed a decade ago. Allen, a hundred millions of dollars invested in the company, the patent owner is present. Allen's claim relates to four basic patents covering technologies that are used today, starting from a browser capable of displaying many websites for updates (RSS Reader, for example) and technology designed to alert the user of updates in areas that interest him (Google News Alerts, for example). Companies sued by Alan began to respond to the claim. So, Google told the Wall Street Journal that "this lawsuit against several innovative companies in the U.S., represents a regrettable tendency of trying to compete in court rather than the free market." Facebook and technology blog Techcrunch said that the company "believes that the lawsuit baseless" , and promised to fight it