was alleged that the idea for the social network's "like" button was in fact the invention of a dead Dutch
programmer.
Rembrandt Social Media - a Philadelphia-based firm which
possesses Joannes Jozef Everardus van der Meer's patents - said the approval technique had been developed for an earlier failed network called Surfbook.
Mark Zuckerberg's legal team failed to convince a judge to dismiss Rembrandt's claims at a hearing earlier this month after he ruled there were still questions to be answered, according to a report by the Law360 news site.
However, the judge did throw out the specific allegation of "wilful infringement" because he said there was no evidence Facebook had been aware of Mr van der Meer's
work.
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