Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Yahoo sues Facebook for infringing 10 patents - Yahoo! News

More on Yahoo’s new business strategy

"As a general proposition, when a company is about to go public, the last thing it needs is to get involved in a knock-down, drag out litigation fight," Chien said.

"So that might make Facebook more willing to resolve its differences with Yahoo."

Yahoo has used similar timing to its advantage in the past. Google agreed to issue shares to Yahoo nine days before Google went public in 2004 in exchange for a license to Yahoo's patents. Google later took a $201 million non-cash charge related to the transaction.

Yahoo sues Facebook for infringing 10 patents - Yahoo! News

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