Yahoo has filed suit against Facebook in a California court, accusing the social networking giant of infringing on 10 patents held by the web pioneer.
"Yahoo has invested substantial resources in research and development over the years, which has led to numerous patented inventions of technology that other companies have licensed," the corporate said in a press release.
"These technologies are the muse of our business that engages over 700 million monthly unique visitors and represent the spirit of innovation upon which Yahoo! is built," the Sunnyvale, California-based company said.
"Unfortunately, the problem with Facebook remains unresolved and we're compelled to hunt redress in federal court," Yahoo said. "We're confident that we'll prevail."
Facebook, which was founded in 2004, a decade after Yahoo, expressed disappointment with the Yahoo move.
"We're disappointed that Yahoo, an established business partner of Facebook and an organization that has substantially benefited from its association with Facebook, has decided to resort to litigation," a Facebook spokeswoman said.
"All over again, we learned of Yahoo's decision simultaneously with the media," the spokeswoman said. "We're going to defend ourselves vigorously against these puzzling actions."
Yahoo, within the suit filed in US District Court for the Northern District of California, accused Facebook of infringing on patents in different areas.
"For far of the technology upon which Facebook is predicated Yahoo got there first and was therefore granted patents by the us Patent Office to guard those innovations," Yahoo said within the suit.
"Yahoo's patents relate to innovative innovations in online products, including in messaging, news feed generation, social commenting, advertising display, preventing click fraud and privacy controls," the suit said.
"Facebook's entire social network model, which permits users to create profiles and fix with, among other things, persons and businesses, relies on Yahoo's patented social networking technology," it said.
Once seen because the Internet's leading light, Yahoo has struggled lately to construct a strongly profitable, growing business out of its huge web presence and global audience.
Scott Thompson, formerly head of mobile payments firm PayPal, became chief executive at Yahoo originally of January promising urgent action to show the corporate around.
Thompson came in after many months of turmoil over the company's direction, including deadlocked talks over possibly selling off valuable assets in China and Japan.
Two weeks after Thompson was recruited, Yahoo co-founder and previous chief executive Jerry Yang resigned from the board of directors.
a couple of weeks later the chairman and 3 other directors said they might step down, opening the manner for Thompson's agenda.
- AFP
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