On November 17, 2009, Modavox, Inc. filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the United States District Court, Northern District of California against Yahoo! Inc., claiming the company profited from using patented technology related to adding functions to a web page.

Modavox claims Yahoo!’s advertising strategy infringes the two patents-at-issue, US Patent No. 6,594,691 entitled, “Method and System for Adding Function to a Web Page” and US Patent No. 7,269,636 entitled, “Method and Code Module For Adding Function to a Web Page.”

Modavox seeks an injunction, treble damages and attorney’s fees in the patent infringement lawsuit.

Source(s): “Modavox filed patent infringement lawsuit against Yahoo!, Inc.,” CNNMoney.com, November 17, 2009 (http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/globenewswire/178601.htm).