{"id":2382,"date":"2012-03-14T07:45:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T12:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.142.118\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2023-03-08T15:52:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T21:52:06","slug":"dunlap-codding-shareholder-douglas-j-sorocco-quoted-re-yahoo-facebook-patent-infringement-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/dunlap-codding-shareholder-douglas-j-sorocco-quoted-re-yahoo-facebook-patent-infringement-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunlap Codding Shareholder Douglas J. Sorocco Quoted Re Yahoo &#8211; Facebook Patent Infringement Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yahoo is using its patent portfolio to proactively pressure Facebook in advance of the latter&#8217;s pending IPO, according to Dunlap Codding shareholder Doug Sorocco.&nbsp; In an article by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecommercetimes.com\/story\/Yahoo-Strikes-While-Facebooks-Iron-Is-Hot-74625.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Rachelle Dragani in E-Commerce Times<\/a>&nbsp;on March 13, Sorocco was quoted as saying &#8220;The timing of this [lawsuit filed by Yahoo alleging patent infringement by Facebook] adds a pressure component, because anything that can decrease a valuation or depress a stock price will put tremendous pressure on Facebook to address this in some way.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sorocco also explained that Yahoo had been an Internet trailblazer and had amassed a large patent portfolio.&nbsp; The complaint filed by Yahoo mentioned its long history of innovation and asserted that Facebook had floundered before borrowing Yahoo&#8217;s methods and systems for online advertising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo is using its patent portfolio to proactively pressure Facebook in advance of the latter&#8217;s pending IPO, according to Dunlap Codding shareholder Doug Sorocco.&nbsp; In an article by&nbsp;Rachelle Dragani in E-Commerce Times&nbsp;on March 13, Sorocco was quoted as saying &#8220;The timing of this [lawsuit filed by Yahoo alleging patent infringement by Facebook] adds a pressure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[91],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5132,"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions\/5132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}