IBM Wins $83M from Groupon in E-Commerce Patent Fight (opens in new tab)

(bloomberg.com)

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2016 article with more details: 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.Group...) as well as the 4 patents: 5,796,967, 7,072,849, 5,961,601, and 7,631,346

geetfunOP7y ago

Just 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?

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albertwang7y ago

2016 article with more details: 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.Group...) as well as the 4 patents: 5,796,967, 7,072,849, 5,961,601, and 7,631,346

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