IBM Sues Amazon over Patent Infringement
IBM Makes about $1 Billion Dollars a year from their patents they license. IBM and Amazon have been getting nowhere in their negotiations lately. IBM Contends that most of the Amazon website store infringes upon patents from the 1980’s patent portfolio IBM controls. and Amazon does not pay IBM for a license to the patents in question.
See some information over at arstechnica
IBM asserts that Amazon has violated five patents:
- US 5,796,967 - Presenting Applications in an Interactive Service.
- US 5,442,771 - Storing Data in an Interactive Network.
- US 7,072,849 - Presenting Advertising in an Interactive Service.
- US 5,446,891 - Adjusting Hypertext Links with Weighted User Goals and Activities.
- US 5,319,542 - Ordering Items Using an Electronic Catalogue.
