Yahoo files patent suit against Facebook
Yahoo has reportedly filed a patent suit against Facebook, saying that the social network is infringing on technologies that are the “foundation of our business.”
It had been previously reported that Yahoo had demanded that Facebook pay licensing fees for at least 10 patents, and had threatened the IPO-bound social network with legal action if they could not come to a settlement. According to the court filing, the patents deal with technologies for advertising, privacy, social networking, messaging and allowing users to customize their Web experience.
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Yahoo ‘weaponising’ patents to take on Facebook
A former Yahoo employee has attacked the company for using allegedly ambiguous software patents to ‘extort’ money from Facebook.
Facebook is being sued by Yahoo over alleged patent infringementAndy Baio applied for eight patents while he worked at Yahoo from 2005. Four were subsequently granted, and Baio claims in a piece for Wired.com that he was assured his work would only be used defensively.
On Tuesday, however, Yahoo began suing Facebook for breaching ten of its patents in a move Baio calls “deplorable”.
Baio wrote that action is “nothing less than extortion, expertly timed during the SEC-mandated quiet period before Facebook’s IPO. It’s an attack on invention and the hacker ethic.”
The disputed patents relate to a range of procedures that Techcrunch pointed out are commonplace online, such as instant messaging, spam detection and privacy settings.
Baio’s Upcoming.org calendar site was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, and he says “we were asked to file patents for anything and everything we’d invented. Every Yahoo employee was encouraged to participate in their “Patent Incentive Program,” with sizable bonuses issued to everyone who took the time to apply.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9143068/Yahoo-weaponisin...
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