Google has offered Yahoo 2.7 million shares of its upcoming IPO to settle a patent dispute over technology used to display ads, according to Reuters. The dispute stems from a lawsut filed in 2002 by Overture, a Yahoo subsidiary, for
infringing on a patent entitled "system and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engine."
The dispute over this patent, Reuters said, threatened to disrupt Google's highly sucessful AdWords program. As a result of the settlment, Google will license the relevant patents held by Overture.
