MacroSolve Sues Bed Bath & Beyond, Sears and Starwood over Mobile Apps
MacroSolve filed three separate suits against Bed Bath & Beyond, Sears and Starwood Hotels & Resorts 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 in October 2010. 12/4, Eastern District of Texas, 6:2012cv00915; 6:2012cv00916, 6:2012cv00917.