The American multinational technology company, IBM (International
Business Machines Corporation), has quite recently escalated its legal battle
by filing a second lawsuit against Zillow (an American online real estate
database company) alleging Patent
Infringement. According to IBM, Zillow has infringed upon its
patents to build a real estate search engine.
In the lawsuit filed on 21st July 2020 in federal court in
Washington, IBM claimed that Zillow has infringed upon five of its patents,
which improve the searches by ranking results and simplifying the content
displays, among several other things. IBM also alleged that despite the written
notifications, Zillow has engaged in a policy of willful blindness and is still
very much using the technology. As per IBM’s statement in its complaint, dozens
of similar companies, including Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google, have
agreed to come into license agreements with IBM; however, Zillow is not among
them. IBM stated that Zillow, instead, has chosen to infringe upon the five
patents mentioned in the lawsuit filed without even paying due attention to
having adequate licensing discussions in place.
For several years now, IBM and Zillow have been fighting over
patent licensing deals.
Last year in September, IBM sued Zillow in federal court in
California by accusing it of building its portal with the unauthorized use of
IBM’s seven patented technologies. In that complaint, IBM stated that it had
tried hard for three years to enter a licensing agreement with Zillow but
wasn’t able to do the same. In that particular case, IBM is now seeking
royalties on the billions of dollars in revenue, which Zillow has reportedly
earned based on its infringement of IBM’s patented technology.
As per various reports and surveys conducted, IBM invests even
more than $5 billion in research and development every year. The company has a
history of filing patent infringement lawsuits against other tech giants like
Twitter and Groupon. In March, this year, IBM filed a patent infringement
lawsuit against Airbnb by accusing the travel startup of using its patents
corresponding to improved navigation with advertising and bookmarks in an
interactive service.
In a recent statement delivered, Zillow mentioned that it is very
much aware of the lawsuit filed against it by IBM. Zillow believes that the
claims in the lawsuit filed are without any merit. It further said that it would
safeguard itself vigorously from this patent infringement lawsuit. For view source: https://www.kashishipr.com/blog/ibm-files-second-lawsuit-against-zillow-alleging-patent-infringement/
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