NY Daily News
| 3 months ago
It's safe to say that Mark Zuckerberg definitely does not like this...District Court in Virginia against Facebook, saying Zuckerberg stole the idea for integrating his site's like button from Dutch programmer Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer. Van...
Mail Online UK
| 3 months ago
14 February 2013 The widow of a Dutch computer programmer is suing Facebook over its trademarked like' button, claiming her husband invented the technology back in the 1990s. The unnamed widow of Joannes Jozef Everadus van Der Meer claims that the...
Epoch Times
| 3 months ago
February 11, 2013 A thumbs up or "like" icon at the Facebook main campus in Menlo Park, California, May 15, 2012. (Robyn Beck/AFP/GettyImages) Facebook has been sued by a patent-holding company over its like button and some of its other features that...
The Courier-Mail
| 3 months ago
THE heirs of a Dutch internet inventor are suing Facebook for allegedly infringing his patents with the US social networking site's "like" and "share" buttons, court documents seen on Monday said. The family of Jos Van Der Meer, a computer scientist,...
Venture Beat
| 3 months ago
A 400-attorney law firm with roots serving inventors like Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison is now suing Facebook over its use and implementation of the now-ubiquitous like button...The lawyer handling the case, Tom Melsheimer, previously won a...
Dutch News
| 3 months ago
Jos van der Meer, who died in 2004 at the age of 44, is described in the legal documents as a pioneer in terms of developing user-friendly internet technology, the NRC said. In 1998 Van der Meer applied for two patents which, his family claim, paved...
BBC
| 3 months ago
It is being sued by a patent-holding company acting on behalf of a dead Dutch programmer called Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer. Rembrandt Social Media said Facebook's success was based, in part, on using two of Mr Van Der Meer's patents without...
