2 years, 7 months ago
Now that Yahoo has the patent for human enhanced search engine, what happens to mahalo? They pay? Change the lingo up to read differently?
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As far as I have seen Mahalo has used the description "Mahalo is a human powered search engine" to describe itself as we can see in How Mahalo Works
I have not seen any description of Mahalo as "A human enhanced search engine" as Yahoo has just been awarded the patent for.
http://domainnamewire.com/2009/10/06/yahoo-awarded-patent-for-human-enhanced-search-engine/
In my non-professional understanding of the law the difference between "human powered" and "human enhanced" will be enough to differentiate the two search engines and have no infringement issues.
I have not seen any description of Mahalo as "A human enhanced search engine" as Yahoo has just been awarded the patent for.
http://domainnamewire.com/2009/10/06/yahoo-awarded-patent-for-human-enhanced-search-engine/
In my non-professional understanding of the law the difference between "human powered" and "human enhanced" will be enough to differentiate the two search engines and have no infringement issues.
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