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IBM Wallops Groupon With a Vintage Patent

IBM Wallops Groupon With a Vintage Patent

Remember Prodigy, the online service that flourished in the 1990s before flaming out a decade later? Turns out, IBM was one of its original partners and owns Prodigy patents on some of the foundations of e-commerce. A few years ago, IBM claimed Groupon andPriceline Group Inc. were violating some of them and demanded millions.