Squarespace escapes part of website builder's patent lawsuit

Squarespace escapes part of website builder's patent lawsuit

Squarespace managed to have one of the claims against it dropped in a patent lawsuit involving the creator of its website. In September of last year, web 2.0 and mobile technology company Express Mobile sued some of the biggest names in the e-commerce and technology industry, including Atlassian, Dropbox, eBay, Expedia, Facebook, Google, HubSpot, Microsoft and of course Square Space. According to the lawsuits, Express Mobile founder, president and CTO, as well as XMO founder and president Steven H. Rembpell developed the patents and technology at the center of these lawsuits in the late 1990s. Building on his inventions, XMO now holds key fundamental patents covering methods of developing What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) websites and integrating web services into web and mobile solutions. In a press release last year, Rembpell provided more information on the lawsuits currently being decided by the courts, saying, "I am a long-time inventor and have been developing software technologies globally for businesses for nearly 50 years. years. We don't want to prevent defendants or anyone else from using our patents, we just want them to pay us a royalty. Fair."

Squarespace Patent Suit

As reported by Law360, Squarespace is able to evade some of the patent lawsuit thanks to US District Judge Richard G. Andrews, who granted the company's request to dismiss Express Mobile's claims of tax-induced, tax-induced infringement. and deliberate of one of his five patents. However, Squarespace was unable to evade direct infringement claims by arguing that the report did not adequately show how its website building platform complied with the reporting limits. Instead, Judge Andrews agreed with Express Mobile that Squarespace was "prematurely seeking detailed violation allegations" that were unnecessary at the current stage of the case. At the same time, Judge Andrews also upheld Express Mobile's co-infringement claim in the case by dismissing Squarespace's claims that the complaint showed no "direction or control" or "joint venture" between it and third-party users. Express Mobile's lawsuit against Squarespace, as well as other e-commerce and technology companies, is still ongoing and we will likely learn more as it progresses. Via Law360