Yahoo filed its patent lawsuit three weeks ago, and Facebook fired back a salvo of patent infringement counterclaims right back at the portal.
Facebook claims that Yahoo is violating the following patents:
- Patent No. 7,827,208 – “Generating a Feed of Stories Personalized for Members of a Social Network”
- Patent No. 7,945,653 – “Tagging Digital Media”
- Patent No. 6,288,717 – “Headline Posting Algorithm”
- Patent No. 6,216,133 – Method for Enabling a User to Fetch a Specific Information Item from a Set of Information Items and a System for Carrying Out Such a Method”
- Patent No. 6,411,949 – Customizing Data base Information for Presentation with Media Selections”
- Patent No. 6,236,978 – “System and Method for Dynamic Profiling of Users in One-to-One Applications”
- Patent No. 7,603,331 – “System and Method for Dynamic Profiling of Users in One-to-One Applications and for Validating User Rules”
- Patent No. 8,103,611 – “Architectures, Systems, Apparatus, Methods, and Computer-Readable Medium for Providing Recommendations to Users and Applications Using Multidimensional Data”
- Patent No. 8,005,896 – “System for Controlled Distribution of User Profiles Over a Network”
- Patent No. 8,150,913 – “System for Controlled Distribution of User Profiles Over a Network”
While Facebook admits that it received a letter from Yahoo! in early February demanding that it license a slew of patents from the Sunnyvale company, this is the kind of case that appears headed for a slew of settlement conferences, at least after Yahoo launches its latest round of layoffs and restructuring.
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Read Facebook’s answer and legal counterclaims here:
Answer and Counterclaims (Yahoo, Inc. v. Facebook, Inc.)
Then browse Yahoo’s original complaint against Facebook here:
Complaint for Patent Infringement (Yahoo, Inc. v. Facebook, Inc.)