"They're lawyers, after all. They're in the business of hedging. "
An article titled PATENT LAWYERS: Yahoo's Case Against Facebook Is Weak has, as its first take-away message:
Yahoo will be attacking Facebook on specific "claims" in each patent.
AND
it's unlikely that Yahoo will be able to pick up more than a few "wins."
The problem with this thinking is that Facebook will have problems if Yahoo gets any "wins." Infringe a single claim, and there can be difficulties.
The text The wording on many of the patents is very vague. sounds as if taken right out of a Bessen handbook.
Elsewhere, a blog post titled Yahoo, Facebook and the wisdom of Shakespeare ends with: To paraphrase Shakespeare, “the first thing we do to save Silicon Valley, let’s get rid of all the lawyers.”
Yahoo will be attacking Facebook on specific "claims" in each patent.
AND
it's unlikely that Yahoo will be able to pick up more than a few "wins."
The problem with this thinking is that Facebook will have problems if Yahoo gets any "wins." Infringe a single claim, and there can be difficulties.
The text The wording on many of the patents is very vague. sounds as if taken right out of a Bessen handbook.
Elsewhere, a blog post titled Yahoo, Facebook and the wisdom of Shakespeare ends with: To paraphrase Shakespeare, “the first thing we do to save Silicon Valley, let’s get rid of all the lawyers.”
posted by Lawrence B. Ebert at 7:50 PM
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