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Paul Allen sues Apple, Google, nine others over patent infringement
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Microsoft Coach bags co-founder and former executive Paul Allen filed a suit against 11 tech companies on Friday, accusing them of infringement over patents he acquired from the now defunct Internal Research. While Allen had invested in the company, he never participated in the development of the patented technologies.
Allen Coach Handbags founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, and left the company in 1983 after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease. He helped found Internal Research in 1992, and ended up investing about $100 million of his own personal fortune in the firm's work. The Coach Mart '682 patent -- which all defendants are accused of infringing -- is titled "Alerting users to items of current interest." This patent describes a method for alerting users in real time of items that they may be interested in.Two other patents named in the complaint cover "attention managers" which serve to get the attention of the user on a display device.
A Coach Shoes spokesperson for Mr. Allen, David Postman, told PC Magazine Friday that "the technologies in the patents are fundamental to the ways that leading e-commerce and search companies operate today." The suit asks for an unspecified amount in compensatory damages.
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