Just wanted to make people aware of a company called Kolera that is sending threatening letters via their law firm, manatt, phelps, phillips in regard to violation of their patent U.S. Patent No. 6,275,821 titled "Method and System for Executing a Guided Parametric Search.
Apparently, they believe that this patent gives them the rights to faceted search technology. Consequently, anyone who uses this technology without paying licensing fees is potentially a target of litigation. They have outstanding suits with companies such as Microsoft and Ebay. Additionally, Adobe filed a counter-suit on August 10, 2011. Unfortunately, I received a letter this afternoon and we are determining how to proceed. Just thought I would make others aware of this. I'd appreciate any insight others might have regarding the issue. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Faceted-Search-Patent-Lawsuit-Please-Read-tp3259475p3259475.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
