Freedman charges that NAR willfully disregarded REAL's patents over nearly the last decade, making what he calls a 'serious mistake' that has 'disserved more than a million real estate agents across the United States' and 'potentially hurt people who have bought or sold properties across the United States.'

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In a dramatic expansion of a legal battle pitting the rights of pioneering inventors and consumers against the real estate industry’s notorious and unauthorized use of patented methods used by millions of consumers to locate real estate on line, the nation’s largest real estate firms, home builders, and industry umbrella groups are being subject to suit for patent infringement in a case pending in Los Angeles federal court. Read More...

Envirian LLC, the Reston, Va.-based national real estate technology franchise brokerage, announced today that it has negotiated an agreement to license Real Estate Alliance Ltd's (REAL) patented REAL 989™ map search function for use on its national and franchise Web sites.

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LendingTree, LLC, today announced it has obtained a license from Real Estate Alliance Ltd. (REAL) for its patented REAL989(TM) map search functionality for use on the LendingTree-owned RealEstate.com Web site. Read More...

PHILADELPHIA, July 12, 2005 — A local real estate agent who describes herself as being in the top one per cent of all agents nationwide, has been named in a Federal lawsuit that accuses her of patent infringement by using a computer mapping system without acquiring a license to use the enabling technology. Read More...