Company Files Patent Suits Against iHeartMedia, Pandora, Slacker, Spotify, 8 Others Over Website Navigation

Suits

GUADA TECHNOLOGIES LLC has filed patent suits in the plaintiff-friendly U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of TEXAS, MARSHALL Division, against iHEARTMEDIA, INC., PANDORA MEDIA, INC., SLACKER, INC., SPOTIFY USA INC., eMUSIC.COM INC., NETFLIX, INC., MLB ADVANCED MEDIA L.P., RHAPSODY INTERNATIONAL INC., SMULE, INC., BATANGA, INC., DEFY MEDIA, LLC, and RELIANCE MAJESTIC HOLDINGS, LLC, alleging that the defendants infringed on its patent for “Navigation in a Hierarchical Structured Transaction Processing System.”

The plaintiff alleges that its patent is for a system that allows website users to jump from location to location in a website whether the nodes are directly connected or not, and uses the example at iheart.com that allows a user to search for a song or artist and jump to that page without having to go to the category node (like genre or format) under which that song or artist is categorized.

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