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Yahoo's Top IP Lawyer Quits
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| Joseph Siino, the lawyer who built Yahoo Inc.'s intellectual property
| department, is leaving the struggling search giant.
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| Yahoo has lost a number of executives this year, its stock continues to
| slump, and it began the process of laying off 1,500 workers last week.
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http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202426801626
Federal Circuit Affirms Narrow Construction of “Internet Billing Method”
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| Netcraft sued eBay and PayPal for infringement of its patents that cover
| an "internet billing method." During claim construction, the Western District
| of Wisconsin found that the limitation of "providing a communications link
| through equipment of the third party" requires that an infringer "provid[e]
| customers with internet access." Of course, eBay and PayPal do not provide
| internet access.
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http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/12/federal-circuit.html
Stop Software Patents in Europe
http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=1661
Related:
Yahoo files for 'smart' drag-and-drop patent
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| The Yahoo patent revolves around the concept of "smart" drag-and-drop
| commands, which show users good places to move an object. The problem,
| according to Peer to Patent reviewers, is that there are several instances of
| prior art, among them Apple's Mail and Finder applications, along with
| Microsoft's Excel and Visio. In the case of the latter two, points are
| generated on a diagram as users drag out lines; this may or may not be enough
| to challenge Yahoo, as the patent mentions close proximity to the drag
| source.
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http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/12/27/yahoo.drag.and.drop.patent/
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