Free for a Fee

When Yahoo sued Facebook for allegedly infringing 10 patents on social networking and related technologies, it was obvious Facebook would strike back. And Facebook did so quickly, accusing Yahoo of infringing 10 patents of its own, including four that Facebook was able to acquire after Yahoo launched its lawsuit.

Now Yahoo claims Facebook is playing dirty. Not only is Yahoo accusing Facebook of infringing another two patents, Yahoo says Facebook is getting its patents from patent trolls.

more

The content in this post was found at http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/04/yahoo-accuses-facebook-of-being-mean-and-dealing-with-dirty-patent-trolls/ and was not authored by the moderators of freeforafee.com. Clicking the title link will take you to the source of the post.