SmarterAgent sues Real Estate Webmasters, HomeAway

“SmarterAgent invented systems and methods generally related to location-aware search engines, providing content to those location-aware search engines, and making databases supporting location-aware search engines more efficient,” the complaint against HomeAway reads. “SmarterAgent has offered for sale software applications embodying or related to those inventions.”

I had written about the patents SmarterAgent had and how they might continue to enforce them. But here’s the super impressive part…

In 2013, SmarterAgent LLC split into two separate entities – SmarterAgent LLC and SmarterAgent Mobile. The former focused on patent licensing and the latter on mobile technology. In 2018, Keller Williams acquired a controlling stake in SmarterAgent Mobile, as the real estate franchise giant moved toward buildings its new end-to-end real estate platform and consumer-facing home search website and app.

So it looks like SmarterAgent only sold a “controlling interest” in the company that controlled the “mobile technology”, not the “patents”. Those Blumbergs are pretty freaking “smart”!

Canadian Real Estate Association Taps Lone Wolf as National Transaction Management System

CREA intends to maintain The WEBForms® branding on the forms product, but it will now be powered by TransactionDesk and made available to CREA’s membership of over 100,000 REALTOR®members. CREA will be supporting the integration of the TransactionDesk suite into MLSs across Canada. TransactionDesk is already integrated into the MLS® systems in some major markets like Toronto, and TransactionDesk integration connectors have already been developed for CoreLogic® Matrix® and Black Knight Financial® Paragon® MLS systems. Other integrations are planned.

I gotta say I’m super impressed with what Lone Wolf has accomplished since it was acquired by Vista Equity Partners.