[FYI] Softwarepatente: Priceline.com Sues Microsoft Over Patents

["Axel H Horns" <horns@t-online.de>]

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/reuters/REU19991014S0001

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Priceline.com Sues Microsoft Over Patents  

(10/14/99, 6:06 a.m. ET) By Reuters  

Internet buying service Priceline.com said Wednesday that it is suing 
Microsoft, alleging the software giant infringed a Priceline.com 
patent with a new hotel price-matching system on its own online 
travel service.  

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http://www.techweb.com/printableArticle?doc_id=REU19991014S0001

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www.cmpnet.com The Technology Network  

Priceline.com Sues Microsoft Over Patents

By Reuters
Oct 14, 1999 (3:06 AM)

URL: http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/reuters/REU19991014S0001 

Internet buying service Priceline.com said Wednesday that it is suing 
Microsoft, alleging the software giant infringed a Priceline.com 
patent with a new hotel price-matching system on its own online 
travel service. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in 
Connecticut, charges that Microsoft's conduct violated the state's 
Unfair Trade Practices Act. The complaint asked the court to uphold 
the Priceline.com patent and block Microsoft from violating it. It 
sought unspecified actual and punitive damages.  

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Instead of a deal, Microsoft's Expedia.com travel service set up its 
own Hotel Price Matcher service, which Priceline.com
asserted infringed on its U.S. patent #5,794,207, according to Evan 
Chesler, Priceline.com attorney and the chief litigator for
the New York law firm Cravath Swaine & Moore.

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