Adobe being sued over patent violations

Software maker Adobe is being sued for alleged patent violations in its Acrobat publishing software. According to a quarterly report the company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Adobe was sued on June 2 in U.S. District Court for Colorado by Information Technology Innovation. CNET News.com reports that the suit alleges that Adobe’s Acrobat products infringe on the company’s patent, originally assigned to Colorado firm MarketScape, for a “method of extracting network information.”