Monday, March 19, 2018

Match Group Sues Bumble Over Patents

Dallas-based Match Group, the parent company of dating app developer Tinder, has sued Tinder competitor Bumble in the Texas Western District Court over patent infringement. The lawsuit, Match Group, LLC vs. Bumble Trading Inc., alleges that Bumble is "virtually identical" to Tinder. The lawsuit comes after a long, tumultuous history between Match Group's Tinder and Bumble: Bumble's founders left Tinder in 2014, starting up Bumble specifically to provide more control to women using a dating app; one of Bumble's co-founders, Whitney Wolfe, was involved in a sexual harasssment lawsuit against a Tinder co-founder, and Bumble reportedly rejected a takeover offer from Match Group last August.