Zennström and Friis sue eBay

Joltid sued eBay for infringing patents on its technology. According to the plaintiff, their patents are violated "approximately 100,000 times daily in the United States." Damage can be estimated at up to $ 75 million per day.

As you know, patents for the key peering technology that underlies Skype belong to the small firm Joltid, which was established in 2005, just before selling Skype, specifically for storing patents. The company was created by the founders of Skype, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. Until recently, eBay used Joltid technology under license, but on April 1, 2009, a British court revoked this license.

Entrepreneurs Friis and Zennström have done such a scam and are now unsuccessfully blackmailing eBay with the fact that without their consent, Skype cannot be sold to anyone. Moreover, they themselves want to buy the company back for nothing. However, the current owner of the VoIP service does not give up. Ebay stubbornly claims to be ready to rewrite technology from scratch (this is an obvious bluff), and recently even found a buyer for 65% of Skype shares worth $ 1.9 billion (with Friis and Zennstrem, obviously, they did not share).
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Friis and Zennstrom were unable to endure such an insult and recently appealed to the District Court of Northern California. Previously, a similar case was filed in a British court, but before the hearings there will come no earlier than June 2010.