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Friday, October 9, 2009

Another Day, Another Lawsuit Against Facebook (Well, Two)

Another Day, Another Lawsuit Against Facebook (Well, Two)

by Robin Wauters on October 9, 2009

It's an inevitable fact of business life: if you get big, you get sued.

Facebook is getting hit by that simple truth yet again: Phoenix
Media/Communications, publisher of the Boston Phoenix newspaper among
other publications, has fired a legal salvo at the popular social
networking service for allegedly violating a patent related to setting
up online personal profile pages. In addition, the company is being sued
by a Japanese company called Mekiki, which operates a social network
called SamuraiTime and claims Facebook was built using its patented
technology.

Read more...
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/09/another-day-another-lawsuit-against-facebook-well-two/

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