It is not clear what Leader Technologies & conflicts of interest have to do with each other. It appears that Leader Technologies' patent was thrown out by a ju

It is not clear what Leader Technologies & conflicts of interest have to do with each other. It appears that Leader Technologies' patent was thrown out by a jury[1] (list of stories on TechDirt: [2]). Until the IPO, Facebook is still a private company is it not? [1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/07/28/us-facebook-patent-lawsuit-idUSTRE66R4AR20100728?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20reuters%2FtechnologyNews%20%28News%20%2F%20US%20%2F%20Technology%29 http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/07/28/us-facebook-patent... [2] http://www.techdirt.com/blog/?company=leader+technologies http://www.techdirt.com/blog/?company=leader+technologies