Patent dispute: Facebook sued over 'like' button




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Summary: Facebook is being sued by a Dutch widow who alleges her husband, who died in 2004, was the inventor of the social media site's "like" button, and that the technology was used without permission. The plaintiff, the unnamed widow of Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer, is represented by the patent-holding company, Rembrandt Social Media, United Press International reports.