Remember the file-sharing sites Kazaa and Morpheus? The companies, created by Kevin Bermeister and Michael Weiss, respectively, sprang up a decade ago to fill the free music void created by Napster’s demise at the hands of the recording industry. Now that music sharing peer-to-peer networks are old news, Bermeister and Weiss have joined forces in a new venture: patent litigation and licensing.
On Dec. 8, Weiss and Bermeister’s new company, PersonalWeb Technologies, filed five patent infringement suits in Tyler federal district court against major tech companies that offer “cloud computing” services. The complaints name Google, YouTube, Amazon, EMC, VMware, Dropbox, NetApp, NEC and Caringo. PersonalWeb is represented by McKool Smith in all of suits except the one naming Google and YouTube, which was filed by Susman Godfrey.
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