IBM sues Airbnb for patent royalties

Re:IBM sues Airbnb for patent royalties by ALurchyBeast on Thursday March 12, 2020 @12:12PM (#22558285)

Here is the 'fat lines' patent you mentioned: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6930686. It's more about efficiency of drawing a line than connecting four dots.

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Re:IBM sues Airbnb for patent royalties by unlinked_dll on Thursday March 12, 2020 @12:47PM (#22558755)

What the patent says it's about and what your lawyers say it's about are two different things

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Re:IBM sues Airbnb for patent royalties by ska on Thursday March 12, 2020 @06:06PM (#22562379)

That's not true. If a patent doesn't say what it's about in a fairly prescribed way, it is easily defeated.

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