A U.S. Federal Judge in Washington state has put the kibosh on Paul Allen's "sue the Internet" patent lawsuit, at least for now.
In August Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft and majority owner of a company called Interval Licensing, sued several of the biggest companies that operate on the Internet for patent infringement. The defendant list is a who's who of online vendors: AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Office Depot, Officemax, Staples, Yahoo! and Youtube.
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