Tulsa Company Files Lawsuit Against Facebook Over Patent Infringement

A Tulsa company has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook.

In an announcement on MacroSolve's website, the company says the suit is over a violation of a patent obtained by the company in 2010.

The company says the patent addresses mobile information collection systems across all wireless networks, smartphones, tablets, and rugged mobile devices, regardless of carrier and manufacturer, and is currently utilized in MacroSolve's rapid mobile app development platforms.

MacroSolve's lawsuit claims, "Facebook, directly or through intermediaries, made, has made, used, imported, provided, supplied, distributed, sold and/or offered for sale products and/or systems (including at least the Facebook mobile application product and/or service) that infringed one or more claims of the 816 patent, and/or Facebook induced infringement and/or contributed to the infringement of one or more of the claims of the 816 patent by its customers."

MacroSolve was awarded the patent on October 26, 2010.

This lawsuit is similar to a suit filed by MacroSolve in September 2011 against AT&T, Citigroup, Dell and Groupon for infringing on the same patent.

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