Facebook counter-sues Yahoo over patents

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The Master of Disaster
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Following Yahoo's lawsuit against Facebook last month, Facebook's gone on the counter-attack.


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Last month, Yahoo filed a suit alleging that Facebook was violating ten patents covering messaging, news feed generation, social commenting, advertising display, preventing click fraud and privacy controls.


But Facebook's filed back - very quickly - with a counter-claim, in which it accuses Yahoo of infringing ten of its own patents in the areas of advertising, online recommendations and photo-tagging.


"Yahoo! infringes the Facebook patents-in-suit through, by way of example and notlimitation, the Yahoo! Home Page, Yahoo!
 
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