{"id":157075,"date":"2020-04-18T14:06:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T21:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=157075"},"modified":"2020-04-18T14:07:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T21:07:32","slug":"lime-is-buying-up-the-remnants-of-electric-skateboard-company-boosted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=157075","title":{"rendered":"Lime is buying up the remnants of electric skateboard company Boosted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scooter sharing company Lime is scooping up the assets of defunct electric skateboard startup Boosted, <em>The Verge <\/em>has learned. At least five of Boosted\u2019s core patents were assigned to Lime\u2019s holding company on April 15th in the government\u2019s database, and two former employees say Lime has been working on acquiring Boosted\u2019s intellectual property dating back to the end of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after a proposed acquisition from Yamaha fell through for Boosted earlier this year, according to the two former employees familiar with the deal, who were granted anonymity because\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/4\/16\/21224164\/lime-buys-boosted-electric-skateboard-scooter-acquistion-bankrupt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scooter sharing company Lime is scooping up the assets of defunct electric skateboard startup Boosted, The Verge has learned. At least five of Boosted\u2019s core patents were assigned to Lime\u2019s holding company on April 15th in the government\u2019s database, and two former employees say Lime has been working on acquiring Boosted\u2019s intellectual property dating back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,84,69,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-action-sports-business-news","category-electric-vehicles","category-skateboard-mountain-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157077,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157075\/revisions\/157077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}