The 10 Patents Yahoo Is Suing Facebook Over

Yahoo isn't making any friends by suing Facebook over 10 alleged patent infringements.

Yahoo isn’t making any friends by suing Facebook over 10 alleged patent infringements.

After hinting that it might go after Facebook late last month, Yahoo made good on its threat.

Wired’s Epicenter blog put it best: “this is a deplorable move.”

Some have even described the suit as putting Yahoo in the same camp as Paul Ceglia and the Winklevoss twins.

Facebook has yet to file a countersuit, the most common tactic in this type of legal situation, Business Insider points out.

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