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Texan company drags Twitter to court

by on06 August 2009


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Patent infringement in 140 characters


TechRadium,
a Texas-based developer, is claiming that Twitter borrowed some of its notification technology for sending alerts to many users and platforms at once, thus annoying and boring them to death.

The company claims a number of organisations could choose to use Twitter, which is free, instead of its technology, dubbed Iris, which is not free. Of course, you can't blame anyone for using a free service rather than a paying one, but TechRadium claims Twitter simply nicked three of its patents and used its ideas in designing its own system for distributing alerts.

The Texan company is seeking a permanent injunction against Twitter at the federal level, and they're also asking for damages.

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Last modified on 06 August 2009
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