ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Facebook infringed on patents held by a Dutch computer programmer who tried to launch a similar site called “Surfbook” more than a decade ago, according to a lawsuit heard by a federal jury Wednesday.The civil trial was underway in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, where social media giant Facebook is being sued by a holding company called Rembrandt Social Media.The lawsuit alleges that a Dutch computer whiz, Joannes Van Der Meer, filed for patents in 1998, claiming methods for running a web-based personal diary. The patents were issued in 2001 and 2002, before Facebook debuted in 2003.But Van Der Meer’s website, Surfbook, never got off the ground. Van Der Meer died in 2004.Menlo Park, California-based Facebook says the patents should never have been issued to Van Der Meer.