Yahoo is Suing Facebook Over 10 Patents

[stevo777]

I think this is a clever (perhaps lame) rouse to attempt to get bought out by Facebook when they go public and have more than enough funds to easily aquire Yahoo for their patent portfolio. They seemed like they were trying to get bought out by Microsoft, but that didn't work.

I read some of the wording in the patents on another site and they seemed kind of obvious--like having ads on your website and automatically procuring one of the many ads by randomly picking them and putting that out to one of your pages--you know, stuff that every major website including Toms does.

 

[husker]

[citation][nom]brewspy[/nom]billybobser is correct. this is code he is talking about, not letter shifting of another company's products or logos[/citation]
billybobser said this: "You can't patent a fucking idea that anyone can have"
My example showed this statement to be incorrect. Sorry, I thought words meant something.

 

[maddad]

The only lawsuit I want to see this year is TOMS suing the people who keep putting advertisements in the comment section!

 

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]whysobluepandabear[/nom]I HEREBY PATIENT BREATHING. THEREFORE, THOSE WHOM BREATHE, MUST PAY ROYALTY FEES TO SIR WHYSOBLUEPANDABEAR. THAT IS ALL.[/citation]

iBreathe...already patented by Apple. Sorry.

 

[nebun]

facebook will not fall...it's supported by the US government, just like the stupid car companies

 

[Crush3d]

"Facebook's entire social network model, which allows users to create profiles for and connect with, among other things, persons and businesses, is based on Yahoo's patented social networking technology," the lawsuit states."

And what social networking technology is that? Yahoo Mail?

 

[gmarsack]

Facebook should buy Yahoo to get the patents and then close their doors for spite... Yahoo was relevant in the 90's.

 

[Guest]

Husker, wouldn't a more accurate example be. I open a restaurant/have an idea for a restaurant that serves burgers and fries made cheaply and fast. I put a different name on the restaurant and different item names but for all intense purposes it does the same thing as McDonalds. As far as I can tell that won't land you in a lawsuit situation (unless maybe, you use the exact same recipes ie code).

 

[freggo]

What do you expect from Yahooooo..... one of America's largest porn providers to minors (thru virtually unchecked adult groups).

Even groups promoting prostitution are there for years unchecked.
Not to mention the rip off they pull on domain registrations - and keeping expired domains in the original owners name to extort their overpriced registration fees...

 

[alphaalphaalpha3]

[citation][nom]A Bad Day[/nom]RAMBUS is an excellent model for those that can't compete...[/citation]

Technically, Rambus can compete, they just prefer not to. Rambus's old XDR memory interface is a little faster than GDDR5 while using the same amount of power even though GDDR5 is considerably newer. XDR2 is about twice as fast as GDDR5 while using about the same amount of power. Then there is mobile XDR for smart phones and tablets that is FAR faster than any LPDDR technology and still uses less power. Of course with Rambus being Rambus, there are few products that use any of their technologies, but they do exist.

One excellent example of the fairly few instances of Rambus tech still being used is the Playstation 3. It has 256MB of XDR memory as it's system RAM. This is a little odd because it has 256 MB of GDDR3 as it's video RAM (XDR is a LOT faster), but it's there nonetheless.

Now for this article, I think that Yahoo is just grasping at straws now that they are slowly losing money. They have fewer people using their search page (which has been powered by Google for the last year or two if I remember correctly) every day; fewer visitors. It's hard to make money when most of your revenue is based on advertisements and fewer people are seeing them. If Yahoo wanted to sue over these things then they should have done it years ago when Facebook started up instead of just letting Facebook do whatever until they had enough money to be worth suing.

Don't get me wrong, I dislike Facebook and refuse to have an account with them, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't demand fairness in a legal system that sees far too little fairness. How does the saying go, "I don't agree with what you said, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it" or something like that. Except I won't defend it to the death, but I think the point is made. You don't need to like someone/something to expect them to at least be treated fairly.

Yahoo waited just to get more money out of it and they should be fined instead of Facebook or just have neither get anything. Yahoo gets nothing for waiting like this and Facebook gets nothing for having been in violation of the patents despite Yahoo/s attempt to wrong them. Just have them both pay their court fees and be done with it.