{"id":6335,"date":"2012-09-13T17:56:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T22:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6335"},"modified":"2012-09-13T17:56:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T22:56:30","slug":"university-of-california-sues-facebook-and-others-over-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6335","title":{"rendered":"University of California Sues Facebook And Others Over Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/regents\/about.html\">Regents of the University of California<\/a> and its lawsuit-happy patent licensee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eolas.com\/\">Eolas Technologies<\/a> yesterday filed lawsuits <a href=\"http:\/\/news.priorsmart.com\/regents-of-the-university-of-california-v-facebook-l6H6\/\">against Facebook<\/a>, Disney and Wal-Mart over four interactive technology patents they believe the companies are infringing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/facebook\/2012\/09\/13\/university-california-sues-facebook-disney-wal-mart-interactive-technology-patents\/\">University of California Sues Facebook And Others Over Patents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>However, two of the patents cited in the new lawsuits were declared invalid in February 2012 by a Texas jury in a separate lawsuit, which targeted Amazon, Apple, Google, Yahoo and others.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Wired headlines its report on the invalidation thusly: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2012\/02\/interactive-web-patent\/\">\u201cTexas Jury Strikes Down Patent Troll\u2019s Claim to Own the Interactive Web\u201d<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Regents of the University of California and its lawsuit-happy patent licensee Eolas Technologies yesterday filed lawsuits against Facebook, Disney and Wal-Mart over four interactive technology patents they believe the companies are infringing. via University of California Sues Facebook And &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6335\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[187,301],"class_list":["post-6335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-facebook","tag-patent-trolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6336,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions\/6336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}