Facebook Countersues Yahoo Over 10 Patents 80
An anonymous reader writes "As expected, Facebook today filed its own patent infringement lawsuit against Yahoo. The social networking giant is claiming the online giant infringes on 10 of its patents. This is a countersuit and will likely lead to some sort of settlement between the two parties. Facebook says Yahoo is infringing on a wide range of its services, including its homepage, content optimization, relevance engine, Flickr photo-sharing service, and advertising throughout the service. Two months ago, Yahoo threatened Facebook with patent war. Last month, the online giant sued the social networking giant over 10 patents and the technology industry made sure to criticize Yahoo like never before."
Preaching to the choir (Score:5, Insightful)
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I am so damned sick of world + dog patenting... welll, everything.
It's just ridiculous.
I KNOW there are patents out there for (software) things that are nontrivial .. things that are actually not obvious to any reasonably skilled practitioner of the software arts, but I'm sick to death of these "a method of derpa derp ta derpa derp involving a database to store derpaderp present derp a derp ta derpaderp"
I wish like hell we could just invalidate every software and business method patent and say "you did something special, FINE, copyright your code, but patents are going back to being about physical stuff" /rant
sorry, just annoyed like the rest of you.
Re:Almost no non-trivial patents (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Preaching to the choir (Score:5, Insightful)
I hope this is a ugly one. (Score:4, Insightful)
It needs to be very ugly and nasty. It needs to be the catalyst that starts patent reform to eliminate software patents.
It stifles creativity and progress.