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Judge says Facebook needs to hand over their source code

If you didn't know already, Leader Technologies is suing Facebook for patent infringement.  Evidently you can patent a method for "associating a piece of data with multiple categories" if it has to do with computers.

Well, everyone thought this was just a publicity stunt, but not any more. The judge ruled in Leader's favor and demanded Facebook present their full source code to Leader for review. Of course this was nonsense so Facebook appealed expecting reasonable protection of their trade secrets. Sucks for Facebook because today, the judge upheld the verdict in the appeal and Facebook is still required to hand over their source code. Wow.

Realgeek got their hands on the court papers.