COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Leader Technologies Incorporated
of Columbus, Ohio, announced today that it has filed a patent infringement
lawsuit against Facebook, Inc. of Palo Alto, California.
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The complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the
District of Delaware and alleges that Facebook infringes Leader's U.S. Patent
No. 7,139,761 issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on
November 21, 2006. The '761 Patent generally relates to a method and system
for the management and storage of electronic information. Leader seeks
damages and an injunction against Facebook for its willful infringement of the
'761 Patent.
Leader was founded by Michael McKibben in 1997 and is a pioneer in
web-based collaboration platforms. Leader has filed several patent
applications, dating back to 2002, that cover its technology. "We have spent
a great amount of time and effort in procuring our intellectual property,"
says Michael McKibben, founder of Leader and named inventor on the '761
Patent, "and have taken the steps necessary to protect our proprietary and
inventive ideas."
Leader is represented by the law firms King & Spalding LLP and Potter
Anderson & Corroon LLP.
About Leader
Leader Technologies(R) Incorporated is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.
Leader(R) develops and markets a new Web 2.0 communications framework based on
its patented Digital Leaderboard(R) system covered by U.S. Patent No.
7,139,761. Within this framework, Leader(R) offers Leader Phone(R) and Leader
Dialog(R) for toll-free and toll-audio conferencing, Leader Alert(R) for
alerting, and Leader Meeting(TM) for web conferencing in commerce, education,
and government. Leader has been a key provider to the government of services
during national emergencies, including provider of major disaster response
communication services following Hurricane Katrina to the Governor of the
State of Louisiana and state and federal agencies. Leader also provided
support to the United States Departments of Homeland Security and Defense at
the Terrorex '04 terror threat simulation in Las Vegas. For more information,
go online at www.leader.com or contact John Needham (614) 865-9896.
SOURCE Leader Technologies Incorporated
John Needham of Leader Technologies Incorporated, +1-614-865-9896
