How Yahoo won the Bedrock patent trial that Google lost (Thomson Reuters)
How Yahoo won the Bedrock patent trial that Google lost (Thomson Reuters)
Google was not the only company sued for patent infringement by Bedrock;
there several other defendants, including Yahoo. Most of those defendants
have settled, but Yahoo stuck it out to the end and got a "not infringing"
verdict for its pain. Thomson Reuters looks
at what happened differently this time to enable Yahoo to win.
"First off, Bedrock had a stronger case against Google. [Bedrock
counsel Douglas] Cawley put on evidence that Google used Bedrock's Linux
code on its servers (although Google got rid of the code before
trial). Yahoo, on the other hand, used a different form of Linux, and its
lead trial lawyer, Yar Chaikovsky and Fay Morisseau of McDermott Will, were
able to argue that Yahoo never executed the Bedrock code.
"