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IBM Sues Amazon For Patent Infringement

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the they-did-it-first dept.

Petersko writes "It appears Amazon is about to be sued for patent infringement by IBM". From the article: "Hundreds of other companies have licensed the same patents, and IBM has tried to negotiate licensing deals with Amazon "over a dozen times since 2002," Kelly said. Amazon.com, which has bought a lot of hardware from Hewlett-Packard Co. over the years but not IBM, has allegedly refused every time."

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  1. Re:Almost a month old by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its not a dupe, IBM had to double sue because Amazon have a patent on single click lawsuits.

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  2. Re:Patents by QuantumG · · Score: 4, Funny

    On slashdot it doesn't matter if you're the first to do it, no-one else had ever thought of doing it, and no-one knew how to do it until you did it.. if the method can be explained in a sentence this audience is more than willing to call it "obvious" then make some claim about how something completely unrelated (that is also obvious) could be covered by the patent under question and therefore declare that not only will the lawsuit fail but the patent will be revoked by royal decree.

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