Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, is suing AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo, and YouTube for infringing on his patents for "related links", "alerts" and "recommendations".
This is the second time he's tried to file this lawsuit, because the first time the courts wouldn't here it due to the fact he was basically claiming that he invented the majority of the services that every major site on the internet provides. The language of the patents is so vague that one wonders how they even qualified as patents. The patent for "alerts" describes them as "displaying information to a user in an unobtrusive manner that occupies the peripheral attention of the user." In other words, Paul Allen is claiming to have invented putting shit to one side of the screen.
Also, I LOLd when I saw that the site that featured this story had two links below the first two paragraphs labelled "See more of our latest Patents coverage" and "add an alert for future coverage of Patents."
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