Pragmatus AV Sues YouTube, FaceBook, LinkedIn and Photobucket for Patent Infringement

November 19, 2010 - Pragmatus AV, a Virginia company, has sued four Internet giants - YouTube, FaceBook, LinkedIn and Photobucket - for infringement of three of its digital video patents.

All of the defendant companies have systems and services that allow users to upload, link to, and comment on videos - activities that Pragmatus says infringe three of its patents related to the storage, accessing and playing of media files.

The patent infringement lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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