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."