Thursday, 26 October 2006
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IBM has filed two patent infringement lawsuits against Amazon.com for unspecified damages. The lawsuits come after nearly four years of attempts by IBM to resolve its concerns with Amazon.com over infringement of IBM’s patents, said the company.
"We filed this case for a very simple reason. IBM's property is being knowingly and unfairly exploited," said Dr. John E. Kelly III, senior vice president of IBM Technology and Intellectual Property.
IBM said that Amazon.com has willfully infringed and continues to infringe on a number of key IBM patents, including:
- 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
Dating back to September 2002, IBM had notified Amazon.com numerous times of the infringement, but Amazon.com had shown no willingness to have meaningful discussions, IBM continued. "When someone takes our property, without our permission through a license, we have no option but to protect it through every means available to us," said Kelly.
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