Twitter is being sued by TechRadium for Patent Infringement. TechRadium is a company in Texas that specializes in "mass-notification." Twitter is fighting this lawsuit and demands their day in court.
TechRadium believes that Twitter's business model is founded on their patented communication model. There are similarities in the messaging system, but it appears that the argument will be that TechRadium's patent isn't "unique" enough. At the time filed, it was somewhat novel, but now it's considered obvious technology (Kravets).
I'll be interested to see how this falls out. Will Twitter win it's case by proving a lack of uniqueness of TechRadium's patent? Or, will TechRadium win it's suit that Twitter basically stole it's business model, but didn't pay licensing fees?
For more, read the following article: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/twitter-defends-tweetingmethod/
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It looks like no one else has commented - but I wanted to make sure this worked. I think that it's not too unique and that there is plenty of room on the internet for mulitiple twitter-like sites, so I think Twitter will win this.
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