Meet The Judge Who Will Try Yahoo Versus Facebook
Judge Jeffrey S. White of the U.S. District Court of Northern California, San Francisco, was appointed to Yahoo's patent infringement case against Facebook.
Judge Jeffrey S. White of the U.S. District Court of Northern California, San Francisco, was appointed to Yahoo’s patent infringement case against Facebook.
Initially Judge William Alsup had been assigned to the case, and he’s already trying the patent clash between Oracle and Google, which had some overlap in terms of the issues that would have been decided.
Having the same judge decide both of these cases would have been a tall order, according to the Foss Patents blog.
However, the Yahoo v.
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