JDate Slaps Zoosk, OkCupid, And 2RedBeans With Patent Lawsuit Over Secret Admiring
March 11, 2011 at 16:54 PM EST
It appears that Jewish dating site JDate has filed a patent lawsuit against dating sites 2RedBeans , Zoosk , and OKCupid. According to the complaint, JDate alleges that all three companies are infringing the same patent, which states that Sparks Network (JDate's parent company) has invented a method or apparatus for automating the process of confidentially determining whether people feel mutual attraction or have mutual interests. That's right, JDate has a patent on detecting secret crushes. The suit calls out OkCupid's QuickMatch (which shows when two individuals mutually admire each other); Zoosk's Scientific Matching Service, and 2RedBean's Secret Admire function as infringing JDate-owned patent # 5,950,200, titled "Method and Apparatus for Detection Of Reciprocal Interests or Feelings And Subsequent Notification."
