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Left with just two weeks to explain exactly how seven of the web's
biggest properties (and three office supply chains) violated his
company Interval's patents, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen figured
out a plan -- Intervals' lawyers are drawing big, colored boxes around
large swaths of the allegedly infringing websites' real estate. In all
seriousness, a lot of companies may owe Allen a lot of money if
Interval truly has a case, because Interval claims to have patented no
less than the ability for a website to take a user-selected piece of
content and suggest other related pieces of content that might be of
interest. Oh, and it's also apparently patented pop-ups and widgets,
as most anything that displays information "in an unobtrusive manner
that occupies the peripheral attention of the user" is getting the
same treatment. Hilariously, it appears that the co-founder of
Microsoft didn't provide his lawyers with basic scanning technology,
because the PDF of the exhibits they uploaded to the court's web site
is just epically bad -- check out everything they say infringes in the
gallery below.
Disclaimer: We should note that AOL is among the companies being sued
by Allen and Interval, and that Engadget is owned by AOL. So you know,
just think about that a bunch, or something.
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