MacroSolve Sues American Express and Redbox over Mobile Apps

MacroSolve filed two separate suits against American Express and Redbox Automated Retail, 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 40 defendants including AOL, AT&T, CitiGroup, Dell, Facebook, Groupon, Newegg, Priceline, Salesforce, Travelocity, Wal-Mart, and Yelp. Sixteen of the suits have been terminated. 10/5, Eastern District of Texas, no judge yet assigned, 6:2012cv00743; 6:2012cv00744.