{"id":3454,"date":"2012-03-17T17:31:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T22:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3454"},"modified":"2012-03-17T17:31:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T22:31:45","slug":"are-yahoos-patents-strong-enough-to-topple-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3454","title":{"rendered":"Are Yahoo&#8217;s patents strong enough to topple Facebook?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;What likely will happen in the short term is Facebook will make a decision as to whether it thinks this lawsuit is having a significant impact on its forthcoming IPO,&#8221; Patras said. &#8220;If it thinks it is having a significant impact then I suspect Facebook will come to a relatively quick license agreement with Yahoo to make this issue go away. If Facebook concludes it&#8217;s not having a significant impact they will fight on and get to the merits of these claims down the road.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2012\/03\/in-battle-against-yahoo-facebook-hindered-by-ipo-weak-patent-portfolio.ars\">Are Yahoo&#8217;s patents strong enough to topple Facebook?<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What likely will happen in the short term is Facebook will make a decision as to whether it thinks this lawsuit is having a significant impact on its forthcoming IPO,&#8221; Patras said. &#8220;If it thinks it is having a significant &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3454\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[187,301,377],"class_list":["post-3454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-facebook","tag-patent-trolls","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3455,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions\/3455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}