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Re:Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal by bogomipz on Thursday December 15, 2016 @06:51PM (#13189858)
I mentioned this in another comment but how does Yahoo even know that its intellectual property wasn't taken?

Is it unreasonable to suspect that a company that has had multiples breaches of security of this extent might also not have had its IP taken out from underneath them as well?

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Re:Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal by jlebrech on Friday December 16, 2016 @09:21AM (#13193370)
when you patent something it's always in the public domain, that's the point of patents, except that the ownership isn't public domain just the knowledge of a particular tech. but yes, nothing guarantees that tech they had in the pipeline isn't being stolen right now.

but if the details of a patent have been stolen the patents still have value, except for when the exact implementation of a patent can be circumvented due to access to plans.

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