Prof claims Lyft did a hit-and-run on his ride-sharing tech patent
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/25/prof_says_lyft_stole_his_ridesharing_tech/
Lyft is the target of a lawsuit filed by a former Georgia Tech professor who alleges the dial-a-ride upstart ripped off his patented idea.
Prof Stephen Dickerson and his company RideApp claim Lyft is infringing on US Patent 6,697,730: "Communications and computing based urban transit system." He filed the patent in 1999 and originally assigned it to Georgia Tech.