Can someone find the relevant suit and allegations? What eCommerce patents does IBM own?
This is from 2007, but it sounds right, and it includes some patent numbers:
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2545023/ibm--amazon-co...
IBM sues Airbnb for patent royalties
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#12The whole US patent system needs to either be scrapped or rebuilt. The purpose it was originally intended to be used for doesn't make sense in a world where most new technology is just software, and software is incredibly easy to copy and duplicate. Getting a software patent is mostly a matter of sneaking past the people at the USPTO, and making sure you're the first to file. These patent factories could just write code to generate patents all day (maybe start using PyTorch?).
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#13AirBNB is like the Michael Jordan of getting sued
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#14I recall an article a while back about how IBM is so innovative because it had the most patents filed per year on tech or something. I think we can see now that their patenting is less about innovation and more about patent trolling. Quote from the FT article on this below does not seem to show to me that this is the sort of patent that promotes real innovation - "improved navigation using bookmarks" does not seem li…
Are you quoting from the Abstract or something? The claims are what matters.
I'm quoting the news article linked.
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#15Does anyone have details of how much IBM is trying to extract from Airbnb? I see the settlement with Groupon but surely they cannot be aiming that high? (of course I could be too optimistic here)
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#16One would think after years of getting trolled by SCO IBM would be over this.
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#17Shocking: some people believe they should rule the world forever.
What a novel play by entitled aristocrats.
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#19famous fat line patent !
https://www.forbes.com/asap/2002/0624/044.html
>>> The chief blue suit orchestrated the presentation of the seven patents IBM claimed were infringed, the most prominent of which was IBM's notorious "fat lines" patent: To turn a thin line on a computer screen into a broad line, you go up and down an equal distance from the ends of the thin line and then connect the four points. You probably learned this technique for turning a line into a rectangle in seventh-grade geometry, and, doubtless, you believe it was devised by Euclid or some such 3,000-year-old thinker. Not according to the examiners of the USPTO, who awarded IBM a patent on the process.
Read the whole story and you will see how IBM makes money !
Re: IBM sues Airbnb for patent royalties
#20The whole US patent system needs to either be scrapped or rebuilt. The purpose it was originally intended to be used for doesn't make sense in a world where most new technology is just software, and software is incredibly easy to copy and duplicate. Getting a software patent is mostly a matter of sneaking past the people at the USPTO, and making sure you're the first to file. These patent factories could just write c…
I guess I always assumed this is more or less how it worked everywhere, at least anywhere that respect intellectual property. Is this not the case? What other models are out there, and which ones work better?