Facebook Hit With Another Patent Lawsuit: Mitel

Canadian communications outfit Mitel Networks is suing Facebook for patent-infringement regarding "proactive features for telephony" and an "automatic web page generator."

Canadian communications outfit Mitel Networks is suing Facebook for patent-infringement regarding “proactive features for telephony” and an “automatic web page generator.”

The social network is already wrapped up in a patent-infringement lawsuit from Yahoo covering 10 patents, and dealing with a class-action lawsuit involving mobile privacy.

Mitel’s lawsuit, filed in the U.S District Court for the District of Delaware, covers these two patents:

  • 7,292,685, proactive features for telephony, covering systems for proactively suggesting communications features to users.
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