Supposed Post-It Inventor Sues MLB, StubHub for Ticketing Patent

A man who once claimed he invented the Post-It note filed a federal lawsuit seeking $720 million from Major League Baseball, its teams, Ticketmaster LLC, and StubHub Holdings Inc., whose digital ticketing platforms allegedly infringe his patent for dynamic barcode technology.

The league and ticket exchanges exploit Alan Amron’s “revolutionary” U.S. Patent No. 9,047,715, which prevents unauthorized screenshots of digital tickets, according to a complaint docketed Thursday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. Amron also seeks an ongoing royalty of 2% of the $4.5 billion in annual total digital ticket sales, amounting to $90 ...