I began developing an adtech product about 6 months ago after checking the USPTO and finding nothing that I was infringing on. Recently I discovered a patent granted to Yahoo in the beginning of June that describes my product exactly. I am not sure what to do now. Any recommendations on a course of action would be appreciated.
Your smart patent laywer might say: delete this post asap.<p>If you KNOW you're infringing a patent, it's MUCH worse than if you're infringing without knowing. That's why it can be better to not do patent searches.
3/16/2013 the rule "first inventor to file (FITF)" was put in place, you are out of luck and now infringing on Yahoo's patent. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_invent" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_inve...</a>