Tinder Sues Dating App Bumble for Patent Infringement and Stealing Trade Secrets

[Chaotic Lord]

http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/17/technology/tinder-bumble-lawsuit/index.html

Swiper, no swiping our swiping feature!

[Nullianac]

This is just as ridiculous as the Apple patent lawsuits. How can you try to patent something as simple as a left or right gesture?

[IlluminatiRex]

They might have to sue like every dating site out there then, because they all have a tinder like feature now.

[Zakk]

Additionally bumble is better anyways.

[ignhelper]

Only works in US

[Pascall]

This seems silly. Pretty sure there are any number of apps and sites out there that do the left/right thing now.

[Hail Satan]

yeah they'll have to sue okcupid too

[EIREXE]

software patents are the worst

[Killer900]

wont happen since they’re owned by the same parent company lol

[Spazi]

[quote]The complaint also says that Bumble's co-creators are ex-Tinder
employees, and the app has rolled out two new features that were
"learned of and developed confidentially while at Tinder." [/quote]

Stealing trade secrets is a serious charge and it looks like they have a basis for it too.

It's also clearly wrong even if the victim is a big company.

How many of you did as much as look at the article I wonder

[Zero-Point]

Shh! It's funnier imagining a company destroying itself with lawsuits, Oroboros style!

[ardosos]

I never knew stealing trade secrets was something you could sue over, but it makes sense I guess, if they were former employees.

[redBadger]

Tinder is some pay 2 win shit

[Fate]

Keyword now. Just because it was a good UX concept doesn't give people free rein to copy it?

[Phygon]

Bumble is full of fake profiles, why are they even giving them the time of day?

[Zephyrs]

I mean, so is Tinder.

[Phygon]

Yeah but the ones on tinder aren't made by tinder, and they aren't over half of all profiles.

[Jimesu_Evil]

I chuckled but then I thought about it.

I swiped right on my girlfriend about a month before we actually matched, and she only saw my profile after I caved in and paid for a boost.

I really did Pay 2 Win.

[Zephyrs]

Fair.

[SundayRoast]

At one point tinder said that I had +10 girls who'd swiped right on me.
But the fucking program was penalizing me or some shit for not starting enough conversations with my matches so it would drip feed me a match per day.

And seeing those +10 grills who'd swiped right on me would have been instantly possible by paying for enhanced tinder.