IBM Wins $83M from Groupon in E-Commerce Patent Fight

IBM Wins $83M from Groupon in E-Commerce Patent Fight(bloomberg.com)

3 points by geetfun 7 years ago | 2 comments

albertwang 7 years ago |

2016 article with more details: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/ibm-sues-groupon...

It links to the original lawsuit (https://arstechnica.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/IBM.Group...) as well as the 4 patents: 5,796,967, 7,072,849, 5,961,601, and 7,631,346

geetfun 7 years ago |

Just purely out of curiosity when reading this. It seems like a lot of companies license these specific patents (eg. Twitter, Alphabet) as mentioned in the article. Does anyone know what patents they were referring to?