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: It's (Barely) LegalTwitter sued for patent infringement
By Glen Ashman
Twitter sued for patent infringement over emergency 'tweets'
National Law Journal
Alerting the public about a fire, hurricane or traffic accident on Twitter is an unlawful tweet. So claims TechRadium, a company suing Twitter for alleged patent infringement for allowing municipalities, companies, and government agencies to use its site as an emergency notification system. The emergency alert provider argues that it has patents covering the process for simultaneously notifying large numbers of people about emergencies through multiple communication gateways and that Twitter's design falls within the patented technology, so when organizations tweet about road closures, fires or bad weather, the company claims, its patent rights are being violated
Full post as published by It's (Barely) Legal on August 10, 2009 (boomark / email).
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