Facebook Wins Patent Lawsuit

A Delaware court has knocked down a claim against Facebook for patent violation made by little-known software company Leader Technologies.

The lawsuit filed in 2008 by the Ohio-based firm alleged that Facebook had infringed one of its patents relating “to a method and system for the management and storage of electronic information.” The 2006 patent document says the “invention relates to new structures and methods for creating relationships between users, applications, files, and folders.”