Facebook and Instagram Receive Enforcement Letters over App Technology

2017/10/19

Telecoms company UnitedCorp has claimed that features on Facebook and Instagram that allow users to reveal their location infringe technology it owns covering a newly released smartphone app. In?cease-and-desist letters, Miami-based UnitedCorp said the social media networks’ geolocation-based image overlays infringe a patent covering the iFramed app. The app uses technology that acquires and shares images and videos, but also gives users the ability to select “locally sourced content” based on their location before sharing. iFramed is still a relatively new concept. Originally based in Canada it was a tech company in its own right before it was acquired by UnitedCorp in June this year.

Source: WIPR