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Intellectual Property

May 22, 2012

Facebook, Yahoo battle heats up between attorneys

Facebook Inc.'s attorneys at Cooley LLP have accused Yahoo Inc. and its lawyers at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP of failing to do their homework before accusing their client of deception in patent litigation.


By Craig Anderson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook Inc.'s attorneys at Cooley LLP have accused Yahoo Inc. and its lawyers at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP of failing to do their homework before accusing their client of deception in patent litigation between the two companies.


The nasty battle comes in the early stages of Yahoo's patent infringement complaint against Facebook, filed two months before the c...

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