Dutch programmer Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer is action Facebook over its ‘ Like ’ push . Companies get sued all the sentence ! Why do we care ? Well , aside from having an A+ name , van Der Meer is actually … idle . He passed away in 2004 , just as Facebook was beginning to take over the world . Why is he sue now ?
Van Der Meer was the laminitis of Surfbook , a social diary - eccentric service where masses could share material with friends and like things with a ‘ like ’ clit . If that sounds a heckuva portion like some other situation with book in its name , well , you know why case are being tossed around . The cause claims that Facebook “ bears a noteworthy resemblance , both in term of its functionality and technical execution , to the personal web page diary that Van Der Meer had invented years earlier . ”
Van Der Meer was awarded letters patent in 1998 for Surfbook , letters patent that presumptively include the Like button . But Van Der Meer is idle so why does he care about cause ? Well , Rembrandt Social Media , a patent of invention - holding company , is the one that ’ll be doing the suing but Van Der Meer ’s widow and his colleagues will attest in the trial about the grandness of his innovation . Some times , masses want credit for their body of work . And other times , patent of invention holding companies want money for those hoi polloi ’s oeuvre . Even when they ’re drained . [ Ars Technica , BBC , CNET ]
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