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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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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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