Yahoo: 16 More Patents ‘May Be Relevant’ To Facebook Lawsuit

The fifth amendment to Facebook’s initial public offering filing contained a warning that Yahoo found 16 more patents that “may be relevant” to the patent-infringement lawsuit it filed against Facebook in March.

The fifth amendment to Facebook’s initial public offering filing contained a warning that Yahoo found 16 more patents that “may be relevant” to the patent-infringement lawsuit it filed against Facebook in March.

ZDNet’s Friending Facebook blog obtained a letter from Yahoo to Facebook (embedded below), which included the following paragraph:

Based on publicly available information, we believe that Yahoo’s proprietary server technology may be relevant to Facebook’s data centers and their servers. Such technology is described and claimed in, among others, United States Patents Nos.:

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