A patent monetization company argued that Dropbox Inc. owes it $35 million for alleged infringement of file-sharing patents in a federal trial that started Monday in Waco, Texas.
Motion Offense LLC said that prolific Cary, N.C., inventor Robert Paul Morris came up with several ideas to allow computer users to more easily access files in 2012 that it alleges were used five years later by California-based Dropbox in a product launch.
“Smart Sync was an improved way to share folders, so if you were a recipient it looked like its contents were right there in your folder structure but they’re ...
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