The survivors of a Dutch internet pioneer have a Us patent office in the arm taken to Facebook to complain. The social-networking site would be two patents have been infringed, one of which relates to a ‘digital diary’.
The next of kin of internet pioneer Jos van der meer, who passed away in 2004, accuse Facebook of infringing on two patents. The first of the two patents relate to creating a personal diary on the internet, with multimedia references to web sites’. The patent has also paid attention to sharing information with friends and privacy settings. The patent was filed in 1998, well before the rise of social-networking sites.
The other patent is cryptischer and covers a system that allows an “annotated universal address” of a web site to the ‘dagboekserver’ can be copied. According to the relatives of Van der meer makes the like-button of Facebook infringing on this patent. That can be on another website; ‘like’ will then ensure a reference on the Facebook page of the user is placed.
The relatives have the desk Rembrandt IP-enabled to Facebook to complain; last week the charges were filed. According to them, has Facebook knowingly infringed on the patents; in such a case, it would be one of Van der Meers patents even been cited in a patent of Facebook. They therefore wish to receive compensation.
The relatives say, compared to the NRC, however, especially the hope of recognition and not so much on compensation. They also have AddThis, that tools provides which websites users information via social media share, for the judge dragged. Why they only Facebook and AddThis to sue and not, for example, Twitter and Google+, which is also a ‘digital diary’ and an equivalent of the Like button offer, is unclear.
