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United American Corp Files Patent Infringement Suit against Facebook Inc. in the Federal Court of Canada
United American Corp Files Patent Infringement Suit against Facebook Inc. in the Federal Court of Canada.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n MIAMI, Jan. 31, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Via OTC PR Wire -- Miami-based United American Corp (UnitedCorp), (USOTC:UAMA) announced today that it will enforce on patent infringement against Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) related to Facebook's use of geo-location based filters.\n United American Corp vs Facebook Inc. complete Statement of Claim and Court file number is available for download at: www.unitedcorp.com/facebook Facebook is the world's largest social media service and is a provider of image and video-based social media networking services with head office in Menlo Park, California, United States. The suit, filed today in the Federal Court of Canada, states that Facebook Inc. allegedly infringes on certain claims of Canadian Patent No. 2,887,596 granted on June 14, 2016, entitled \"USER CONTENT SHARING SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH AUTOMATED EXTERNAL CONTENT INTEGRATION\". The patent is directed to the implementation of a dedicated mobile content sharing application that can acquire and share new user images or videos, but also gives users the ability to select between distinct locally sourced external content items based on their location to be integrated within their own content before sharing. The US corresponding patent for iFramed (number 15/240,515) was also allowed by the US Patent and Trademark Office on October 3, 2017 and has been received by its Office of Publication for issuance. Both patents benefit from a first priority date of January 3, 2014. The iFramed patent portfolio has been appraised by TechInsights at US$1.04 billion. Amongst other claims, Facebook's \"Frames\" and \"Geostickers\" which use the geolocation of social media users in order to provide on demand insertion of external content in the form of a frame or overlay on pictures or videos, infringes upon several claims held by iFramed patent. Facebook had previously been sent a notice to cease and desist the use of the alleged infringing technology by UnitedCorp on October 12, 2017. \"The major social media companies are rapidly evolving into cross-platform image posting with geolocation and demographic-based image overlays becoming more and more important,\" said Benoit Laliberte, President of UnitedCorp. \"Our proprietary technology which enables this process can only be used under proper rights granted by our company.\" UnitedCorp is seeking rem...