VNUNET — Aug 31 — Former web acceleration company EpicRealm has filed lawsuits against 13 companies, including eHarmony, It's Just Lunch and FriendFinder, for allegedly infringing on two patents that cover the way in which many dynamic web pages are constructed and served. The Texas-based company filed the first lawsuit If the patents are upheld in court, they could apply to "most modern e-commerce sites involved in dynamic web page generation and caching", according to Ira Rothken, representing FriendFinder. Rothken claimed the patents are invalid because somebody else invented the technologies covered in the patents before EpicRealm.
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