Paul Allen

The Search
One of hottest search on 29 Dec 2010 is on Paul Allen

The Story
Among the headlines are:
- Paul Allen Re-Files is filing Lawsuit Against Facebook, Google and Others
- Google, Facebook & Apple were targeted By Paul Allen's Patent Firm
- Paul Allen is refiling a fresh lawsuit against Facebook, Google, Apple, Netflix, Yahoo and others

The report said that stated companies have infringed on four patents dealing with the way the movies and the related news were displayed. One of the example is the way the accused companies' use the search advertising systems and e-mail spam filters which infringe on these patents,

Who He Is
1. Allen was the co-founded of Microsoft, the owner of patents of the technology developed by Interval Research in 1990's.

2. He served as the Microsoft's executive vice president of research and new product development until 1983, when he left to focus on his health.


Earlier stories
1. The lawsuit was originally filed in August, but it was dismissed because it didn't cite specific examples of products and services that were infringing on the patents in question, the Associated Press said.

2. The patents is about the online features which are embedded in so many websites that bring snippets of news reports from a variety of sources together on a single page.