IBM Sues Amazon For Patent Infringement

Petersko writes "It appears Amazon is about to be sued for patent infringement by IBM". From the article: "Hundreds of other companies have licensed the same patents, and IBM has tried to negotiate licensing deals with Amazon "over a dozen times since 2002," Kelly said. Amazon.com, which has bought a lot of hardware from Hewlett-Packard Co. over the years but not IBM, has allegedly refused every time."

Ouch

[Anonymous Coward]

Turns out that Big Blue has a business method patent on abusing the patent system. Amazon should have seen that coming.

Re:Almost a month old

[LiquidCoooled]

Its not a dupe, IBM had to double sue because Amazon have a patent on single click lawsuits.

Re:Patents

[QuantumG]

On slashdot it doesn't matter if you're the first to do it, no-one else had ever thought of doing it, and no-one knew how to do it until you did it.. if the method can be explained in a sentence this audience is more than willing to call it "obvious" then make some claim about how something completely unrelated (that is also obvious) could be covered by the patent under question and therefore declare that not only will the lawsuit fail but the patent will be revoked by royal decree.

IBM Laywers

[Anonymous Coward]

... have nothing better to do after SCO

Re:amazon

[sabernet]

I wanna be the first to patent the "one click lawsuit". ;)

Re:Screw em

[Achromatic1978]

I find it odd that your wife had to buy a textbook for her college class from Amazon, and was forced to cancel that class when they failed delivery. I don't know, maybe it's a novel expectation that a college bookstore would, you know, sell textbooks for the classes taught at that school. Or y'know, another bookstore.

Re:404'd

[julesh]

'Cause a cache of a 404 page is really useful.