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- Amazon, IBM settle patent lawsuit
- Amazon, IBM settle patent lawsuitIBM is usurping the patent officeIBM brags about the number of patents it files implying technical innovativeness. Granted that IBM does world-class research, but that is distinct from its patent primacy. The sheer number of patents its legal factory produces does not reflect a need...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Isaac Singer, IBM Corp., patent
- Discussion threads 2007-05-08
- Amazon hits back at IBM over patents
- Amazon hits back at IBM over patentsTransparent litigation ployFrom my dealings with Oracle, Amazon apparently has long used IBM's Websphere tools in building its Online foundation, in spite of using Oracle's DBMS. Of course I can not confirm that Amazon.com uses either Oracle or Websphere as tools. These are trade...
- Tags: irony, Amazon.com Inc., IBM Corp., patent, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-15
- Why IBM's patent suit against Amazon could be bad news for the entire Web
- Why IBM's patent suit against Amazon could be bad news for the entire WebI kind of wonder.Not that I really trust IBM but this does seem kind of out of character with their other behavior of late. Could this be IBM's way of trying to get the idea of...
- Tags: Patent Laws, Prognosticators, Web, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, IBM Corp., patent, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-27
- IBM: Amazon violates our patents
- IBM: Amazon violates our patentsbad PR for IBMIBM should stay away from suing companies over patents on one hand and supporting GPL on the other hand.You can not serve two incompatible Gods!YawnAnother example of why software patents should not be allowed, but I don't really feel sorry for Amazon, since...
- Tags: Web 2.0 kid, IBM Corp., patent, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-23
- Judge lets Blockbuster antitrust suit go forward
- Judge lets Blockbuster antitrust suit go forwardHey, does anyone know what the patents are?I'm just curious.Judge lets Blockbuster antitrust suit go forwardGo Blockbuser Go!NetFlix SucksWe switched from NetFlix to Blockbuster because NetFlix pentalizes heavy users of their service. They use their software to slow shipping to heavy users of new...
- Tags: TV & Home Theater, antitrust, Amazon.com Inc., Blockbuster Inc., NetFlix Inc., Reflex Communications, Enron Corp., patent
- Discussion threads 2006-08-23
- Amazon prepares for online taxes
- Amazon prepares for online taxesThe day I pay taxes online......The day I pay taxes online is the day I stop shopping online.Benjamin Franklin said:"In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes"Famous quote by Benjamin Franklin, one of the forefathers of the United States... which broke away from the...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Consumer electronics, Amazon.com Inc., tax, DVD, patent, patent application
- Discussion threads 2006-04-10
- Obstacles ahead for Amazon's 1-Click checkout?
- Obstacles ahead for Amazon's 1-Click checkout?Ten minute patent, 10 year court case"Jan Conlin, the attorney for IPXL, on Tuesday urged a three-judge panel at the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit to overturn the lower court's decision"This will no doubt end up as another 10 man years of work...
- Tags: patent, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-10-04
- Amazon pays $40 million to settle patent dispute
- Amazon pays $40 million to settle patent disputeAmazon could have saved that$40,000,000.00 if they had just helped defeat the idea of software patents a long time ago.I wonder if the "single click buy" was worth it?1982 Minitelhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel"Since its early days, users could make online purchases, make train reservations, check stock...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., patent, shopping cart
- Discussion threads 2005-08-11
- Amazon files for Web services patent
- Amazon files for Web services patentMay I patent the idea of reading this story?Makes as much sense.This whole patent thing is out of control.Next: Amazon patents method for exchanging money online for goods/servicesI, for one, welcome our new Economic Overlords.I'm sure this patent will go through too. @#$%!ing USPTO. It's...
- Tags: Web service, Web, Amazon.com Inc., patent, U.S. Postal Service
- Discussion threads 2005-07-28
- Amazon countersues Cendant
- Amazon countersues CendantMove to EuropeAmazons patent is junk, read 6,029,141, its about quoting card number *******1234 (only showing a subset of credit card numbers to stop the credit card number being stolen, obvious non invention done often before the patent was applied for).If Cendent were European without a US...
- Tags: Cendant Corp., patent, Cendent, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-07-18
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- Will Microsoft pit 'Milan' multi-touch against Apple's iPhone?
- Will Microsoft pit 'Milan' multi-touch against Apple's iPhone?M$ realeases more vaporwareGate$ needs his 2 minutes of fame to tell us about new M$ vaporware.Nothing more, just strugulling to stay relevant!The usual MOWe have it too!!! Let's state our vision of the future after someone else states theirs or has actually...
- Tags: Keyboards, Advertising & Promotion, vaporware, Microsoft Corp., Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-29
- Why IBM's patent suit against Amazon could be bad news for the entire Web
- For years, there have been a handful of companies trying to figure out how to erect a toll booth on the Web, if not the Internet altogether. In other words, they've been looking for some way to ensure that the Internet or some portion thereof can't work unless they get...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., advertisement, IBM Corp., reception system, Web
- Blog posts 2006-10-27
- BlackBerry saved
- BlackBerry savedSHOW ME THE MONEY!See, that wasn't so hard...And RIM Wimps Out!!How RIM settles a dispute over patents that have been invalidated by the Patent office is beyond me.Granted the Judge was deciding whether to impose an injunction or not, but all they had to do was hold out until...
- Tags: Handhelds, Research In Motion Ltd., NTP, patent, RIM BlackBerry
- Discussion threads 2006-03-03
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