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Yahoo Beats Patent Troll That Beat Google

Posted by Soulskill on from the yahoo-therefore-stronger-than-google dept.

jfruhlinger writes "You may recall the saga of patent troll Bedrock, which claims that it has patents over Linux and successfully sued Google over Google's Linux use. Well, the verdict from Bedrock's suit against Yahoo on similar grounds has come in — and Yahoo is victorious, not least because Yahoo went second and got to see how the arguments in the Google case went."

3 of 82 comments (clear)

  1. And the perfect car analogy would be: by zill · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Slipstreaming.

  2. Re:Appeal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, you can add 2 and 3 like that? Patent Approved!

    - USPTO worker #217

  3. Re:Appeal? by Desler · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just as I expected:

    "First off, Bedrock had a stronger case against Google. Cawley put on evidence that Google used Bedrock's Linux code on its servers (although Google got rid of the code before trial). Yahoo, on the other hand, used a different form of Linux, and its lead trial lawyer, Yar Chaikovsky and Fay Morisseau of McDermott Will, were able to argue that Yahoo never executed the Bedrock code."

    The case against Google was much stronger hence they were found to infringe. So since the cases seem to not be exactly the same, I'm guessing that Google bringing up Yahoo's case is going to mean very little to the appeal's court.