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Facebook Countersues Yahoo Over 10 Patents

Posted by samzenpus on from the hoist-with-your-own-petard dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As expected, Facebook today filed its own patent infringement lawsuit against Yahoo. The social networking giant is claiming the online giant infringes on 10 of its patents. This is a countersuit and will likely lead to some sort of settlement between the two parties. Facebook says Yahoo is infringing on a wide range of its services, including its homepage, content optimization, relevance engine, Flickr photo-sharing service, and advertising throughout the service. Two months ago, Yahoo threatened Facebook with patent war. Last month, the online giant sued the social networking giant over 10 patents and the technology industry made sure to criticize Yahoo like never before."

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  1. Try Sueville by tomhath · · Score: 2, Funny

    A great new game. It sends out updates all day long "Yahoo just sued Facebook"..."Facebook just sued Yahoo"..."Apple just sued itself"...

  2. Re:fdfdsa by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 4, Funny

    frosty piss!!

    You called?

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  3. look at me lookatmeeeeee by electron+sponge · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll be very happy when corporate controlled social networking dies a natural death and there is an open-source, easily manageable solution for attention whores.

  4. "Online giant"? by SockPuppetOfTheWeek · · Score: 3, Funny

    What, who said anything about Google?

    Oh, Yahoo!. Yahoo! is hardly an "online giant". More like an online joke. A wanna-be.