M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on Yahoo! Inc. v Facebook, Inc.

Date:  Thu, 2012-03-15

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – March 15, 2012 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on Yahoo! Inc. v Facebook, Inc.

On March 12, 2012, Yahoo! filed a patent infringement suit against Facebook. In the complaint, Yahoo! alleges that “Facebook’s entire social networking model ”¦ is based on Yahoo!’s patent social networking technology.” A bold statement, since all but one of the asserted patents underwent extensive claim amendments AFTER Facebook was incorporated in 2004. What does this mean? It means the asserted Yahoo! patents have the dual benefit of a pre-2004 application date and a post-2004 visibility into technologies that Facebook had already reduced to practice.

M·CAM’s Patently Obvious® is a weekly report providing visibility into potentially unconsidered alternatives, including art in the public domain, to patent holdings across a variety of technology areas.

M·CAM, Inc. is a global, full-service intellectual property and rights (IP&R) and intangible asset financial services firm. We provide the technical and financial systems that allow public and private markets to use IP&R and IA for regulated transactions in banking, securities, insurance, and public innovation investment and technology procurement. From our pioneering work in creating the world’s first standards-based innovation collateralization financial products for banking and securities to our work in grassroots innovator enablement and patent quality assurance programs, M·CAM provides the mechanism to balance the interests of public and commercial sectors to support and build thriving economies.

The M·CAM Patently Obvious® report on Yahoo! Inc. v Facebook, Inc. can be found HERE.