Priceline Founder Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement
The parent company of Priceline.com, Walker Digital, claims that Facebook is infringing a patent having to do with anonymous communications, stored-value cards, or both.
Facebook has yet another patent infringement lawsuit on its hands, and this time the co-founder of Priceline.com, Jay Walker is claiming dibs.
His company, Walker Digital LLC, claims that its employees invented a system that some describe as governing anonymous communications. The actual patent looks like Facebook Credits gift cards.
According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Walker Digital invoked its ownership of patent number 5,884,271 within the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Wilmington Delaware. While the media outlet suggested the contested invention concerns anonymous communications, the text sounds more like Facebook Credits on gift cards:
A universal electronic transaction card (“UET card”) is capable of serving as a number of different credit cards, bank cards, identification cards, employee cards, medical and health care management cards and the like.
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