Comments on: Yahoo eyes Facebook patent fight http://www.slashgear.com/yahoo-eyes-facebook-patent-fight-28215969/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Thu, 17 May 2012 17:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Foren http://www.slashgear.com/yahoo-eyes-facebook-patent-fight-28215969/#comment-188665 Foren Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:49:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=215969#comment-188665 More non-industry and extortion, on the back of horseshit patents that should never have been issued.

The continued existence of software and “business method” patents renders all talk of innovation and entrepreneurship in the U.S. hypocrisy.  Patents are now used as a tool for the very thing they were supposed to prevent: the theft of people’s work, and anti-competitive behavior.

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