Facebook Inc. has signaled it's ready for a patent battle.
Yahoo Inc. sued the social-networking site in March for patent infringement, and lawyers for Facebook fired back Tuesday with a countersuit. Facebook claims Yahoo is infringing 10 patents covering services such as its homepage, content optimization, relevance engine, Flickr photo-sharing service and advertisements displayed throughout the site.
"From the outset, we said we would defend ourselves vigorously against Yahoo's lawsuit, and today we filed our answer as well as counter-claims against Yahoo for infringing ten of Facebook's patents," Facebook general counsel Theodore Ullyot said in an emailed statement. "While we are asserting patent claims of our own, we do so in response to Yahoo's short-sighted decision to attack one of its partners and prioritize litigation over innovation."
Three of the patents Facebook asserts in this suit were invented by its own engineers, and one related to tagging digital media was co-invented by Mark Zuckerberg. The others were acquired from New York University, IPG Electronics and RightPoint, one as recently as Friday.
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Source: law.com
By Amy Miller
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