Facebook Acquires Company That Sued, WhoGlue
A patent-infringement lawsuit ended up leading to an acquisition, as relationship-management-software developer WhoGlue announced that it was acquired by Facebook.
A patent-infringement lawsuit ended up leading to an acquisition, as relationship-management-software developer WhoGlue announced that it was acquired by Facebook.
WhoGlue filed suit against Facebook in September 2009, claiming that the social network “violated a patent awarded to WhoGlue in 2007 for an “information management system’ to control personal information as human networks and technology increasingly mesh.”
Founder Jason Hardebeck told The Baltimore Sun‘s BaltTech blog the suit was settled in a “very positive” way last year, adding:
It’s not typically how you introduce yourself to someone, to serve them with papers.
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