Serial plaintiff: IBM sues Groupon for patent infringement
Groupon, the world's largest collective discount service, is accused of patent infringement. The service violated the terms of use of patents of IBM Corporation, which, in turn, is one of the world's largest manufacturers and suppliers of hardware and software.
The corporation appealed to the US District Court of Delaware. About this on Wednesday, March 2, reported CNBC. According to IBM, the Groupon service has ignored the corporation’s demands to eliminate violations since 2011. The service has not paid license fees and moreover, it is not even going to voluntarily license the development used.
Groupon websites and mobile applications illegally use IBM technology to enable interaction between sellers and buyers. Groupon violated two patents related to the IBM Prodigy online subscription aggregator.
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Total discount service violated four patents - two of them were registered in the late 1990s, one more - in 2006 and one - in 2009.
The corporation filed similar claims a year ago. Then Priceline online auction violated four IBM patents.
In 2013, Twitter paid the corporation compensation of $ 36 million for the illegal use of its technology. In 2007, IBM also reached an agreement with Amazon on licensing issues.
On January 13, the Forbes publication reported that IBM, for the 23rd year in a row, became the leader in the number of patents in the United States. At the end of 2015, IBM received 7355 patents. The main directions for it were cloud technologies and machine self-learning.
Each year, the company spends 6% of its revenue on research, which is about half as much as the average cost of American IT companies with a capitalization above $ 10 billion.
For 22 years (1993-2015) leadership by IBM, the inventors of the company received about 88 thousand patents.
The corporation appealed to the US District Court of Delaware. About this on Wednesday, March 2, reported CNBC. According to IBM, the Groupon service has ignored the corporation’s demands to eliminate violations since 2011. The service has not paid license fees and moreover, it is not even going to voluntarily license the development used.
Groupon websites and mobile applications illegally use IBM technology to enable interaction between sellers and buyers. Groupon violated two patents related to the IBM Prodigy online subscription aggregator.
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Total discount service violated four patents - two of them were registered in the late 1990s, one more - in 2006 and one - in 2009.
The corporation filed similar claims a year ago. Then Priceline online auction violated four IBM patents.
In 2013, Twitter paid the corporation compensation of $ 36 million for the illegal use of its technology. In 2007, IBM also reached an agreement with Amazon on licensing issues.
On January 13, the Forbes publication reported that IBM, for the 23rd year in a row, became the leader in the number of patents in the United States. At the end of 2015, IBM received 7355 patents. The main directions for it were cloud technologies and machine self-learning.
Each year, the company spends 6% of its revenue on research, which is about half as much as the average cost of American IT companies with a capitalization above $ 10 billion.
For 22 years (1993-2015) leadership by IBM, the inventors of the company received about 88 thousand patents.
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