InNova v. 36 companies (2010, USA)
InNova has accused thirty-six companies of infringing their spam filtering technology patent.
The target companies
3Com Corporation; Alcatel-Lucent Holding, Inc.; American International Group, Inc.; Apple; AOL, Inc.; Bank of America Corporation; Capital One Auto Finance, Inc.; Capital One Financial Corporation; Cinemark, Inc.; Cinemark Holdings, Inc.; Citigroup, Inc.; Crossmark, Inc.; Dell, Inc.; Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.; Ericsson, Inc.; Frito-Lay, Inc.; Frito-Lay North America, Inc.; Google; Hewlett-Packard Company; HP Enterprise Services, LLC; International Business Machines Corporation; JCPenny, J.C. Penney Corporation, Inc.; J.C. Penney Life Insurance Company; J.C. Penney Mexico, Inc.; J.C. Penney Reinsurance Company; JCP Publications Corp.; JPMorgan Chase & Co.; McAfee, Inc.; Perot Systems Corporation; Rent-A-Center, Inc.; Research in Motion Corporation; Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software, Inc.; Symantec Corporation; Wells Fargo & Company; and Yahoo!, Inc.
Related pages on ESP Wiki
- Trend Micro v. Barracuda (2008, USA) - also over spam-blocking
External links
- Apple among 36 companies targeted in e-mail spam patent suit, 21 July 2010
- The Lanier Law Firm Files Infringement Lawsuit Over Email Spam Patent, 21 July 2010
- Slashdot: Company Claims Patent On Spam Filtering, Sues World, 24 July 2010
- uspto.gov: US6,018,761
