MacroSolve Sues Six More Defendants over Mobile Apps

MacroSolve filed six separate suits against CVS Pharmacy, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Home Depot, SuperShuttle International, SkyMall, and Walgreens alleging that the defendants’ mobile applications infringe a patent related to remote collection of survey or questionnaire form data. The complaints allege that the defendants and their customers jointly infringe the patent-in-suit. MacroSolve has filed more than 30 suits since March 2011 against over 60 defendants including American Express, AOL, AT&T, CitiGroup, Dell, Facebook, Groupon, Newegg, Priceline, Salesforce, Travelocity, Wal-Mart, and Yelp. The patent-in-suit was issued to MacroSolve by inventor David Payne in August 2003. 12/21, Eastern District of Texas, 6:2012cv00975; 6:2012cv00976; 6:2012cv00977; 6:2012cv00978; 6:2012cv00979; 6:2012cv00980.