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Facebook Ordered To Turn Over Source Code

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the revealing-trade-secret-super-poke-tech dept.

consonant writes "A Delaware District Court judge has ordered Facebook to turn over ALL its source code to Leader Technologies, who allege patent infringements by Facebook. The patent in question appears to be for 'associating a piece of data with multiple categories.' Additionally, while the judge in question deems it fine to let Leader Technologies look at Facebook's source (for a patent, no less!) in its entirety for a single feature, it would be 'overboard to ask a patent holder to disclose all of their products that practice any claim of the patent-in-suit.'"

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  1. Pretty absurd by skelterjohn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Facebook should hire some of Diebold's lawyers. They're really good at keeping source private.

  2. Re:this patenting thing ... by oldspewey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just to be safe, it's probably best to limit this story to just a single tag. Under no circumstances should anybody tag this story with multiple categories such as "patenttroll" and "getfucked" at the same time.

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  3. Re:this patenting thing ... by russotto · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, I've already got a patent on "A method of answering a question you have yourself posed in order to bring about a sense of smug self satisfaction."

    Prior Art!

  4. Re:this patenting thing ... by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think women have prior art on that.

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