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Yahoo! Settles Patent Dispute

Posted by timothy on from the does-licensing-legitimize dept.

theodp writes "NCR has settled the lawsuit it brought against Yahoo! last December for infringing on 10 patents related to e-commerce technology. The case, discussed earlier on Slashdot, was especially significant because it involved broad patents covering basic Internet functions. As part of the settlement, Yahoo! is now licensing the technology. Terms of the settlement and licensing agreement were not disclosed."

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  1. Exclude it then ... by zonix · · Score: 3, Informative
    Haven't we had enough yet?

    No. But if you like, you can always exclude the patent articles from the homepage in you /. preferences.

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  2. Fight Software Patents by lee-irving · · Score: 5, Informative
    This is the reason why we need to fight software patents within the UK and EU. Please email, write, telephone your local MP , MEP and let them know that software patents will kill our industry.


    I am not sure but if the EU starts to accept software patents will the US patents be enforceable through WIPO or similar. If so then the EU will already be at a loss as all the US patents will come into force and by typing this I am probably breaking a few of them :)

    1. Re:Fight Software Patents by Elektroschock · · Score: 2, Informative

      Eu-Parlamentarians Search engine.
      /*I am not sure but if the EU starts to accept software patents will the US patents be enforceable through WIPO or similar. If so then the EU will already be at a loss as all the US patents will come into force and by typing this I am probably breaking a few of them :)*/

      This will be the next step. See FFII swpat AG for comprehensive details or join a Mailinglist patents@Aful.org or bxl@ffii.org

    2. Re:Fight Software Patents by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      A huge problem is that there are already around 40.000 illegal patents registrered in the EU, which will suddenly become legal patents the day software patents become legal.
      75% of those patents are owned by companies outside the EU. Now, this is what I call protecting your national software industry.... Or not!

  3. Re:Boo! by mericet · · Score: 3, Informative
    Not necessarily, these seem like the patents titles (e.g. 'a method and system for ordering and downloading resources from computerized repositories') and not the claims.

    Titles are usually overly borad, but have no legal imlications, in a patent, only the valid claims have legal imlications and they are usually much narrower.

    P.S. IANAL...

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  4. Re:Companies Behaving Badly by Alioth · · Score: 2, Informative

    > But 3 million outsourced jobs? FUCK YOU IBM.

    IBM doesn't even employ 3M people - you're not even in the same order of magnitude. If they outsource 3M jobs, they are *employing* an extra 2.75M people. Sounds like it'd be good for the world as a whole.

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  5. Lets find prior art and bury this bs by the_archivist · · Score: 2, Informative

    heres a link to the patent for yr interest. Read the patent

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