Evolutionary Intelligence, LLC sued Apple, social media companies Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Yelp, Groupon, and Living Social, telecom Sprint Nextel, and mobile advertising network Millennial Media in federal court yesterday, claiming infringement of 2 patents.
Curiously, the names of the patents are virtually identical, although the abstract and specifics are different.
They are:
- U.S. patent number 7,010,536, a “System and method for creating and manipulating information containers with dynamic registers,” and
- U.S. patent number 7,702,682, a “System and Method for Creating and Manipulating Information Containers with Dynamic Registers.”
Except for the defendants’ names and minor changes to the brief summaries of each defendant’s alleged infringement, the lawsuits essentially appear to cut and paste different defendants from one suit to another.
According to Delaware’s Dept. of State, Evolutionary Intelligence, LLC was formed just over four (4) months ago on June 15, 2012. Each complaint states that the plaintiff has a “principal place of business in San Francisco, California.”
You can read copies of the patent lawsuits against Facebook, Apple, and Twitter below, and the other companies here:
Complaint for Patent Infringement (Evolutionary Intelligence, LLC v. Facebook, Inc.)
Complaint for Patent Infringement (Evolutionary Intelligence, LLC v. Apple, Inc.)
Complaint for Patent Infringement (Evolutionary Intelligence, LLC v. Twitter, Inc.)
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