Tinder’s parent company is suing Bumble for patent infringement

Match Group, the company that holds a large portfolio of dating services, such as Tinder, Match.com, OkCupid, PlentyOfFish, to name a few, and was in talks last year to purchase dating and professional networking service Bumble. According to Recode, Match is still looking to acquire the service, but it’s going about it in an unconventional way: by suing it for patent infringement.On Friday, Match filed a lawsuit that accuses Bumble of infringing on a pair of patents held by Tinder: one ca