LINE "Furufuru" function Patent infringement compensation order of over 14 million yen Tokyo District Court

When adding a friend with the communication app LINE, the Tokyo District Court admitted that it infringed the patent of an IT company in Kyoto City regarding the function called "Furufuru" that can be registered by shaking the smartphone with the other party, and 14 million against LINE I ordered compensation for the surplus yen.

LINE stopped the "Furufuru" service in May last year.