Wireless Ink Corp., which runs the Winksite service, you can make demands and mobile Buzz Facebook Google infringed its patents October 2009, USA District Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan wrote in a statement issued on Friday.
The patent relates to a method to help new mobile phone users to create mobile web sites that other users can view records. Wireless Ink is seeking a halt to the alleged infringement, and compensatory damages and triple.
Jeremy Pitcock, a lawyer for Wireless Ink, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Facebook and Google did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
According to an amended complaint filed in December, the ink application wireless calls '983 patent was issued in January 2004.
He said it was three years before Facebook, the Web world's most popular social networks, launched its mobile website first, and six years before Google launched Buzz to compete with Facebook.
"If two of the richest in natural resources, smart companies patent and technologically advanced leader in Internet are not aware of the '983 patent, despite its potential ramifications on a significant segment of the business of the defendants," wrote Wireless Ink, this was solely due to deliberate indifference by defendants. "
Wireless Ink Winksite said there were over 75. 000 registered users, while Facebook Mobile has tens of millions of users, Google said that tens of millions of people have "checked Buzz" in the first two-day service.
In his ruling, said Castillo wireless ink "does not allege facts that are inconsistent with the existence of a viable claim." He also dismissed counterclaims seeking to invalidate the patent wireless printers.
Facebook is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and Google in Mountain View, California.
Already, analysts generally consider a failure Buzz Google. Google raises privacy issues if initially e-mail lists used in the accounts of Gmail users to create social networking Buzz. He later changed the settings so that the Gmail contacts are kept private by default.