Rembrandt Social Media is suing Facebook for its use of the Like button, according to the BBC. Rembrandt claims that Facebook’s success is owed, at least in part, to patents belonging to Dutch programmer Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer, who died in 2004. Facebook declined to comment, but a lawyer for Rembrandt, which owns the patents, said that the patents “represent an important foundation of social media.”
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Facebook Faces Lawsuit Over Like Button
Posted by: David Vranicar February 12, 2013 02:08 PMRembrandt Social Media is suing Facebook for its use of the Like button, according to the BBC. Rembrandt claims that Facebook’s success is owed, at least in part, to patents belonging to Dutch programmer Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer, who died in 2004. Facebook declined to comment, but a lawyer for Rembrandt, which owns the patents, said that the patents “represent an important foundation of social media.”