Snap bought a patent for geofilters for $ 7.7 million. To protect from Facebook
Snap, which owns the Snapchat instant messenger, acquired a patent for geofilters for $ 7.7 million. The patent was purchased from Mobli, an Israeli competitor to Instagram, who received it in 2012. This is reported by The Verge.
Facebook is desperate to take Snapchat's users from it, even by blatantly copying all Snapchat's features. I Don't quite understand how they are legally allowed to do that...Intellectual Property theft....almost?
Our laws here say that if you modify 3-6% it us considered a new thing just like the words apple and ample, one subtle change and it is truly different.