subject: The court has dismissed the claim of the founder of Microsoft to Apple, Google and Facebook [print this page] The court has dismissed the claim of the founder of Microsoft to Apple, Google and Facebook
The court hasn't accepted to consideration the claim of one of founders of Microsoft Paul Allen against Apple and 10 more large companies, including Google, Facebook, Yahoo and AOL, considering the brought accusations too "uncertain".
Such the decision was taken by judge Marsha Pechman. Now Allen and his lawyers have time till the end of December to specify the requirements which have been originally declared in the claim submitted in August of this year. Paul Allen filed cases against Google, Facebook, Apple, AOL, YouTube, eBay and five more companies, having charged them of infringement of several patents for the technologies used in the Internet. In particular, it is a question of emerging windows.
57-year-old Allen has declared that nowadays not existing company Interval Research Corp. is the owner of patents which have been broken by the companies-respondents. The declaration of claim has been taken to court of Seattle.
Under assumptions of local mass-media, the claim has been submitted not for the sake of reception of material compensation, but because of desire to achieve legal use of the technologies developed by the company.
David Postman, representative of Interval Research Corp., considers that the claim is necessary to support investments into innovations. "We don't apply for patents of other firms, and also we do not buy the patents initially belonging to other companies. It is a question of patents initially developed by Interval Research Corp.," he has declared.
Probably in attempt to protect from charges that the claim an example of actions of "patent trolls", the claimant extensively describes history of interaction with Google, trying to allocate the claim among similar cases.
