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IBM Wins $83M from Groupon in E-Commerce Patent Fight
- geetfun 8y agoJust purely out of curiosity when reading this. It seems like a lot of companies license these specific patents (eg. Twitter, Alphabet) as mentioned in the article. Does anyone know what patents they were referring to?
- albertwang 8y ago2016 article with more details: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/ibm-sues-groupon-saying-it-infringes-patents-related-to-1990s-prodigy-service/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/ibm-sues-groupon... It links to the original lawsuit (https://arstechnica.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/IBM.Groupon.Patent.Complaint.pdf https://arstechnica.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/IBM.Group...) as well as the 4 patents: 5,796,967, 7,072,849, 5,961,601, and 7,631,346