Posts Tagged: Yahoo
Visual Search Engines: A New Side Door for Competitors or a Better Infringement Detection Tool?
Text-based search engines, such as Google and Yahoo (remember Ask Jeeves?), were arguably the most important development leading to our now everyday reliance on the Internet. The …
Open Invention Network: A Mission to Maintain Open-Source Status for Linux Systems
As Jaime Siegel, OIN’s Global Director of Licensing, notes, OIN is able to grant free membership to companies joining the consortium thanks to the efforts of …
Are Today’s Social Media Tech Giants the Big Brother that Orwell Warned Us About?
Dystopian novels and science fiction often return to the subject of the loss of personal privacy which is often encouraged by the use of technology enabling constant, …
Parties Agreement to Settle Issues Does Not Extinguish Board’s Ability to Determine Patentability
However, what if the Board refuses to terminate an IPR despite a joint request by both parties based on a settlement and proceeds to a final written …
Trademark hijackers are hurting online advertisers; here’s how to stop them
Avery Labels worked hard to establish its brand among consumers as the premier retailer of label products, as well as providing software solutions through their design-and-print-online tool …
Cybercrimes, Data Breaches Rise Against Big Firms
Cyber crimes and data breaches have become far too widespread in the recent times. Technological progress has taken the risk to new levels, with newer techniques to …
Will Yahoo Feed the Patent Trolls?
Yahoo’s proposed auction of the Excalibur portfolio is likely to be the largest sale of computer-related patents since the Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’l …
Billion-dollar-plus valuation of Yahoo’s Excalibur patent portfolio could be optimistic in current market
It’s this environment of malaise within which Yahoo is trying to bolster its fortunes with the sale of an intellectual property portfolio involving about 3,000 patents and …
The Yahoo Patent Portfolio: What is the market price today?
Business Insider reports that Yahoo's patent portfolio could generate up to $3B. We disagree and we use data to show why. With an estimated street price of $772…
American consumers increasingly happy with social media but not search engines
The big winner among social media e-businesses in the 2015 consumer index is Pinterest, the personal web cataloguing service headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Its consumer satisfaction index …
Core Yahoo! patent focus on search engines, social networks and fantasy sports
Between July 2011 and July 2014, Yahoo! had expenditures of 17.8 as a percent of sales on R&D while experiencing a stock growth of 85 percent over the same time …
The Right of Publicity: Cashing in on Being Famous
In part 2 of my interview with Kristina Dinerman we discuss how aggressive celebrities are becoming with respect to protecting their right of publicity in the age of …
The Right of Publicity in a Social Media World: An Interview with Yahoo! Executive Kristina Dinerman
Kristina Dinerman is Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Yahoo! Inc. Dinerman handles business and legal affairs for media, marketing and the Yahoo Studio, which means …
Yahoo! Focuses on Social Platform for Achieving Personal Goals
We were very intrigued to see a large number of patent applications related to goal achievement technologies, and we closely examined three of these which we felt …
Yahoo Seeks Patent on Method of Recommending Advertising Services
We start today’s check into Yahoo!’s innovations with an in-depth look at one patent application describing an online marketplace for advertising services which can be …