Another day, another patent infringement lawsuit filed against Facebook. That’s right, these guys have been sued so many times that I’m sure by now they have lost count. Why in the world would people go after Facebook? And why is this happening to them? Here is a good article to start on their latest lawsuit.

For one, Facebook is a target because of their popularity. This company is raking in the dough, and that makes some people greedy or upset. Upset because to them they have stolen key elements of their technologies that they hold patents on. Imagine that, you start a web site, you have a great idea, but somewhere in the world an element of that web site was copied. How in the world can you not fall into such a situation? Did Facebook actually try and steal the elements in dispute? I do not know for sure, but in the past this has happened to other companies and it was ruled in their favor that they did not steal a single thing.

Patents can be great, but they do also limit us as to what we can do as far as what we can use when starting up a new business. Be careful!