IBM, Amazon Settle Patent Fight

[HardOCP News]

Amazon has settled all outstanding patent disputes with IBM after paying the company an undisclosed amount of money.

The agreement will give Amazon greater freedom to innovate, the online retailer said, while IBM for its part looked forward to a more productive relationship between the two companies than they have had of late. The two companies have been haggling over patents since September 2002: that's when IBM said it first approached Amazon about a licensing deal.

 

[UrielDagda]

"However, they failed to reach an agreement, and so IBM sued Amazon in October 2006, alleging that the company was infringing on a number of its U.S. patents, including those relating to storing data in an interactive network (number 5,442,771), adjusting hypertext links with weighted user goals and activities (5,446,891) and ordering items using an electronic catalogue (5,319,542)."

What, no patent on "using a computer to compute"?

 

[sfsuphysics]

Well IBM does have a patent on bits 0 through 6, #7 on the other hand is free for everyone to use