When news broke this week that Yahoo is accusing Facebook of violating as many as 20 of its patents, it took some people by surprise — but at least one patent expert saw it all coming from a mile away. Erin-Michael Gill first publicly predicted a Yahoo/Facebook patent battle back in November 2011, so TechCrunch TV reached out to Gill to get his insights on the situation, now that things have finally started to come to a head.
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The Man Who Predicted the Yahoo/Facebook IP War on Why Patents Still Matter [TCTV]
Posted by Gsurface
on February 29, 2012
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