Streamcast Adds EBay to Skype Suit
Streamcast filed an updated complaint Monday morning, in their ongoing suit against Skype and 21 other companies. Andy Abramson first reported on this last March, and I wrote a summary of the suit at the time, from the faxed copy which Andy had uncovered. Monday’s update:
- Adds EBay to the suit. No surprise. EBay is the deep pockets.
- Asks for damages of $4 billion.
- Adds anti-trust allegations to the complaint.
- Seeks an injunction to prevent Skype from “selling” any more of their VoIP product.
Do you suppose Skype’s North American giveaway campaign was a legal gambit? Nah…. couldn’t be!
January 25th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
[...] The story broke at the end of March last year. Later in May, StreamCast amended their complaint, adding eBay to the suit, and demanding $4.1 billlon in damages. The core of StreamCast’s complaint was a claim that they had right of first first refusal in the event that the Skype technology was sold elsewhere. In effect, they were asking the court to undo the Skype sale to eBay. [...]