Match Says Bumble Exploiting Virus Concerns to Delay Patent Case

Tinder owner Match Group LLC accused Bumble of “hypocrisy” and “opportunism” by allegedly using the Covid-19 crisis for gamesmanship to postpone its online dating patent case in Texas federal court.

Match Group told the court in an April 3 letter that Bumble is “exploiting the country’s COVID-19 crisis” by attempting to delay the case so its request to invalidate the patents at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board could “leap ahead” of it.

Match sued Bumble in 2018 for, among other things, allegedly infringing patents related to its dating app. Bumble challenged the validity of three Match patents at the ...