A company owned by the founders of Skype sued the Internet and phone service so parent company eBay for intellectual rights violation, it was reported Thursday.
The move could thwart the plan of eBay to sell Skype to an investor group for 2,000 million dollars.
Joltid Ltd., Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, filed suit in federal court in northern California. Skype claims that violated an agreement on the use of communication technology that Skype uses Joltid licensed in their programs that channel phone calls through the network.
Joltid included in its application to all private investors agreed to buy Skype, among them are Marc Andreessen, a pioneer of Internet search engines and board member of eBay, and Skype's former directors Danny Rimer and Mike Volpi .
Joltid calls a resource for Skype to desist from using that technology and damage estimated at more than $ 75 million per day.
Zennstrom and Friis sold Skype to eBay for $ 2,600 million in 2007. Since then the companies are involved in a dispute over the use of the technology, called software index global.
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