Lawyer’s patent infringement claim against Twitter fails – Defense Verdict

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: November 14, 2011

Tags: Federal Courts, Intellectual Property, Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr., Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts

The suit against Twitter was brought by Virginia-based VS Technologies LLC, which was formed by intellectual property lawyer Dinesh Agarwal, who obtained a patent in 2002 for “an interactive virtual community of famous people.” He sought $40 million in damages from Twitter, the world’s largest social networking and microblogging site. A federal jury in Norfolk found ...

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