Docs' Website Sues Santorum, Romney & Newt

Docs' Website Sues Santorum, Romney & Newt

LOS ANGELES (CN) - A website for doctors and patients claims the top three Republican presidential candidates - Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich - are violating its patents on their Facebook pages.

EveryMD sued the three candidates, but not Facebook, in Federal Court.

Los Angeles-based EveryMD describes itself as a partnership of Frank Weyer and Troy Javaher, which has run the everymd.com website since 2001.
The website "provides home pages for over 300,000 member doctors and allows patients to obtain information about, send messages to, and submit comments about those doctors via the doctors' individual home pages," according to the complaint.

EveryMD claims it owns two patents, and has submitted other patent applications, for its "Method, Apparatus and Business System for Online Communications with Online and Offline Recipients."

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