New York - The Associated Press has filed suit against Moreover Technologies, and parent company VeriSign, alleging the companies have engaged in copyright infringement and have misappropriated the news organization's trademarks.

Filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday, the lawsuit states that Moreover and VeriSign failed to comply with a cease and desist letter sent on Sept. 11, and seeks unspecified damages and a permanent injunction against the companies.

Moreover operates a service that aggregates real-time news for corporate customers that have included The New York Times Co., Dow Jones' Factiva, and USA Today.

"This suit is about two companies that are willfully misappropriating and infringing upon AP's proprietary news reports on a continuous basis, and are falsely associating themselves with AP, to operate and promote their fee-based and ad-supported services, which they promise will deliver real-time news in as fast as two minutes of publication," said Srinandan Kasi, AP's vice president and general counsel.

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