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May 22, 2012 10:02 pm GMT
One ideafloated when Ross Levinsohn took the reins as the interim CEO of Yahoo is that he might represent a kinder, gentler phase in the Internet company's contentious patent fight against Facebook. There was even a suggestion that the two sides might even be able to settle.Today, some news that could point to a different approach -- at least for now. Some documents have emerged at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that indicate someone, just yesterday, requested for the USPTO to re-examine a patent owned by Facebook concerning news feeds, and to declare it invalid. This happens to be one of the same patents that Facebook has named in its counter-suit against Yahoo, and one patent expert believes that the re-examination request, which questions the validity of the patent, could be coming from Yahoo.
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Update: Someone Is Asking The USPTO To Invalidate Zuckerbergs News Feed Patent, But Yahoo Says Not Us
One ideafloated when Ross Levinsohn took the reins as the interim CEO of Yahoo is that he might represent a kinder, gentler phase in the Internet company's contentious patent fight against Facebook. There was even a suggestion that the two sides might even be able to settle.Today, some news that could point to a different approach -- at least for now. Some documents have emerged at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that indicate someone, just yesterday, requested for the USPTO to re-examine a patent owned by Facebook concerning news feeds, and to declare it invalid. This happens to be one of the same patents that Facebook has named in its counter-suit against Yahoo, and one patent expert believes that the re-examination request, which questions the validity of the patent, could be coming from Yahoo.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/rnbjQ8SiII8/
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