Facebook claimant asks for court return

Paul Ceglia, the man who claims in a lawsuit that he owns 84% of Facebook, asked a federal judge overseeing the case to send it back to state court, writes Bloomberg Business Report.

Ceglia's lawyers argued in filings yesterday that US District Judge Richard Arcara's court lacks jurisdiction over the matter because Ceglia and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg are both citizens of New York state.

Zuckerberg, who lived in Dobbs Ferry, New York, until 2004, has said he now lives in California.

A New Zealand man who cheated investors out of $5.3 million by falsely claiming he had invented a revolutionary form of data compression has been jailed for five years and three months, states NZHerald.

Philip James Whitley, 49, was sentenced in the Nelson District Court after being found guilty of fraud last month.

Whitley had boasted that his technology, a revolutionary "lossless" method of compressing data, would make him "richer than Bill Gates".

Yahoo said it is pleased with a jury verdict that found it did not infringe a patent held by Bright Response LLC, Associated Press reports.

A US District Court jury in Texas found that Yahoo and Google did not infringe Bright Response's patent covering the routing of electronic messages such as e-mail or search queries, according to court documents filed on Monday.

The jury found that neither Google's AdWords or Yahoo's sponsored search technology infringes on the patent because it was in public use before Bright Response filed for patent protection.