Yahoo’s Five Counter-Counterclaims Against Facebook. #1: Throw Out Retaliatory Patents
Counter-countersuit! Yahoo today claimed that the patents Facebook is countering its original patent infringement lawsuit against the social network with “were acquired by Facebook for purposes of retaliation”, and therefore violate the U.S. Patent Office’s “Duty of Disclosure, Candor, and Good Faith” and should be diregarded by the court. Yahoo also claims Facebook couldn’t legally know enough about its business to know if it was violating Facebook’s patents, that several of Facebook’s new patents were illegally filed, and Yahoo also filed two more advertising patent infringement claims against Facebook. Facebook responds that...
Published By: Tech Crunch - Friday, 27 April, 2012
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