Facebook has beaten off a dead Dutch inventor in a lawsuit targeting The Social Network'sTM Timeline, Newsfeed, Groups and Photo Sharing features. At issue in the lawsuit were two patents by Dutch computer scientist Joannes Van Der Meer, who died in 2004, which the licensing litigant Rembrandt Social Media said Facebook had …

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Tuesday 17th June 2014 02:31 GMT Thorne

He should of taken them to court in Texas. Always worked for Apple.......

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1. Tuesday 17th June 2014 03:04 GMT Steve Davies 3
  
  Hmmmm
  
  Wasn't it the people suing Apple/MS/Google etc who filed suit in East Texas not the other way round?
  
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Tuesday 17th June 2014 04:35 GMT Long John Brass

US patent court? Shabby??

Umm Mr Pott please meet Mr Kettle

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1. Tuesday 17th June 2014 10:34 GMT nijam
  
  Re: US patent court? Shabby??
  
  Shabby? Perhaps they meant to say "foreign".
  
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2. Tuesday 17th June 2014 12:47 GMT A K Stiles
  
  Re: US patent court? Shabby??
  
  What's Trevor got to do with this?
  
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Tuesday 17th June 2014 07:01 GMT a well wisher

US patent court? Shabby??

Reported without a hint of irony ?

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Tuesday 17th June 2014 09:55 GMT Graham Marsden

'the patents were “shabby” and shouldn't have been granted'

Great, so, that's two down and how many thousands (tens, hundreds of thousands) to go...?

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Tuesday 17th June 2014 11:23 GMT Anonymous Coward

Relevant?

"Xenophobia in American Courts" by Kimberly A. Moore: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=566301

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Tuesday 17th June 2014 15:20 GMT Anonymous Coward

"Beaten off a dead inventor"?

Surely the jury would have a problem with that, if a different case were to be brought!

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Wednesday 18th June 2014 09:43 GMT JaitcH

How often will a US jury find against a US company?

He should have realised he didn't have a chance with a bunch of prejudiced US jurors.

They should try the EU - that would hopefully see justice ... and money.

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