Tech company sues Twitter for patent infringement

A technology company has filed a lawsuit in Brooklyn federal court accusing Twitter, the social-media giant, of patent infringement. The suit claims that EasyWeb Innovations holds five patents, with titles such as "Message Publishing System and Method," that it obtained between 2006 and 2010. According to the suit, Twitter.com infringes upon those patents. The lawsuit does not offer more detail on the nature of the patents or...