Yahoo Patent War vs.. Facebook

Patent wars will be increasingly fierce struggle occurred in 2012 in the technology world because of increasingly tight competition despite Sopa technology (Online Piracy STOP Act) has not been enforced as the present one in which Yahoo requires payment of a license to Facebook over the use of technology.

Yahoo claims that Facebook has to use its intellectual property such as advertising mechanisms, controlling the user’s privacy, news feeds and messaging services are not licensed. Portal company in the United States is threatening to sue, but Facebook seems to be refusing to pay.

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“We will insist that Facebook has entered in a license agreement or we will be forced forward unilaterally to protect our property” the company said in a statement.

“Yahoo has a responsibility to employees, shareholders and stakholder to protect our intellectual property” he said.

The Company has clarified some points that Yahoo has licensed the technology but has yet to explain the other companies that use such licenses and does not explain the nominal value of claims filed by Yahoo.

Yahoo’s action was done after Facebook plans to announce an IPO (Initial Public Offering) where the value is approximately $ 100 billion facebook.

Facebook has not commented on this issue and an event like this is not the first time for the company’s largest social network in the world is facing lawsuits related to copyright.

Patent-related warfare were also happening in the world of smartphones and tablet world as the company Samsung, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google are each suing each other about the abuse of the license.

If Yahoo with Facebook is to be entered in court, would be the largest patent battle in the field of social network.

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