Facebook Faces Patent Suit Over Timeline, Like Button
Did the late Joannes Jozef Everardus Van Der Meer invent timeline and the like button? Van Der Meer died in June 2004, shortly after Facebook debuted at Harvard University, but a lawsuit filed by Rembrandt IP Management on behalf of the late computer scientist’s family is aimed at proving that claim.
Did the late Joannes Jozef Everardus Van Der Meer invent timeline and the like button? Van Der Meer died in June 2004, shortly after Facebook debuted at Harvard University, but a lawsuit filed by Rembrandt IP Management on behalf of the late computer scientist’s family is aimed at proving that claim.
NBC News reported that the suit is based on two patent applications Van Der Meer filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Sept. 1, 1998:
- The first patent application was for a “Web page diary,” which allows users to “collect personal information and third-party content, organize the information chronologically on a personalized Web page, and share the information with a selected group of people, such as the end user’s friends, through the use of user-settable privacy levels.”
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