IDG News Service – Yahoo is said to have written to Facebook indicating that it believes that 16 patents it claims to hold “may be relevant” to open source technology allegedly being used in the data centers and servers of the social networking company, according to a regulatory filing by Facebook on Thursday.
The Internet company has not threatened or initiated litigation in connection with the matters referred to in the letter of April 23, “but it may do so in the future,” Facebook said in the filing.
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