Facebook Could Be Back in Court for Patent Suit Over Site Design

The next high-profile firm to find itself in court looks to be Facebook. In the week that a pair of strapping rowers named Winkelvoss intimated that their battle with Mark Zuckerberg wasn't yet over, the social networking firm is at the center of a patent challenge by Cross Atlantic Capital Partners. In the court papers, XACP claims that it lodged a patent for an Internet-based "community for users with common interests to interact in," dating back to 2000.

The case between the two parties...