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If this is real, which various other people have raised question to. Could it count as prior art in a reexamination [1] of some of the Yahoo patents that Yahoo
by thechut 14y ago
If this is real, which various other people have raised question to. Could it count as prior art in a reexamination [1] of some of the Yahoo patents that Yahoo is using to sue Facebook? [2] Specifically the "social network patent", which is apparently a patent for "World modeling using a relationship network with communication channels to entities"[3].
1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reexamination http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reexamination
2: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/yahoo-patent-lawsuit-we-invented-facebooks-entire-social-network-model.ars http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/yahoo-patent...
3: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,747,648.PN.&OS=PN/7,747,648 http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...