How would anyone know? Given that Yahoo is a member of the W3C, it cannot affect the w3c standards, since they signed up to a no patent policy.
On 13 Mar 2012, at 13:54, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > You may have seen in the news facebook are getting sued for using the > following "patented" technology > > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN/7747648%0A > > Abstract > > Systems and methods for information retrieval and communication employ a > world model. The world model is made up of interrelated entity models, each > of which corresponds to an entity in the real world, such as a person, place, > business, other tangible thing, community, event, or thought. Each entity > model provides a communication channel via which a user can contact a > real-world person responsible for that entity model. Entity models also > provide feedback information, enabling users to easily share their > experiences and opinions of the corresponding real-world entity. > > > > Does this affect Linked Open Data too? Social Web Architect http://bblfish.net/