Match Group, LLC v. Bumble Trading Inc.

  1. June 19, 2020

    Tinder, Bumble Settle Dating App IP War

    Rival dating apps Tinder and Bumble have reached a settlement to resolve a heated intellectual property war between the two market leaders.

  2. April 03, 2020

    Tinder Accuses Bumble Of 'Exploiting' COVID-19 In IP Fight

    Lawyers for the dating app Tinder are accusing attorneys for rival Bumble of "exploiting the country's COVID-19 crisis" to delay an already-contentious intellectual property lawsuit.

  3. March 18, 2020

    Bumble Parent Co. Can't Swipe Left On Match IP Suit

    A Texas federal judge on Wednesday said it has jurisdiction over Bumble's U.K.-based parent company and sister entities in an intellectual property dispute brought by rival dating app Tinder. 

  4. December 18, 2018

    Alice Can't Help Bumble Dump Tinder's Swiping Patents

    A Texas federal judge on Tuesday refused to toss an intellectual property dispute between dating app rivals Bumble and Tinder, holding that Bumble Trading Inc. had failed to show at this stage that the swiping patents owned by Tinder's patent company Match Group LLC are invalid.

  5. September 27, 2018

    Tinder, Bumble Take Swipes At One Another In IP Fight

    Online dating rivals Tinder and Bumble continued to wage intellectual property war in Texas this week, with Tinder making accusations of a "publicity stunt" and Bumble calling into question the validity of several patents for swipe-based dating apps.

  6. March 19, 2018

    Dating App Bumble Is Tinder 'Copycat,' Tinder Owner Says

    The company that owns Tinder and Match.com has accused rival dating app Bumble of copying Tinder's well-known swipe and match features, alleging in a lawsuit filed in Texas federal court Friday that the co-founders of the "copycat" stole confidential information while employed at Tinder.

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