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Date: 08-02-2018

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International Business Machines Corporation v. Groupon, Inc.

District of Delaware Federal Courthouse - Wilmington, Delaware

Case Number: 1:16-cv-00122-LPS

Judge: Leonard P. Stark

Court: United States District Court for the District of Delaware (New Castle County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: David Moore, Bindu Palapura, Brian Matty, Edward Guist, Elizabeth Kimmel, John M. Desmarais, Karin Z. Oussayef, Laurie N. Stempler, Michael J.X. Matulewicz-Crowley, Robert C. Harrits, Stephanie E. O'Byrne

Defendant's Attorney: John Day, Andrew Colin Mayo, Athul K. Acharya, George I. Lee, J. David Hadden, Jessica Benzler, Jessica M. Kaempf, Phillip J. Haack, Saina S. Shamilov and
Sean M. Sullivan for Groupon


Description: Wilmington, DE - Jury Awards IBM $82.5 Million in Damages Against Groupon

International Business Machines Corporation sued Groupon, Inc. on patent infringement theories relating to:


U.S. Patent No. 5796967, titled Method for Presenting Applications in an Interactive Service. Issued in August 1998, it covers a method for presenting interactive applications on a computer network including a multiplicity of user reception systems, the method involving generating a screen display at a reception system for a requested application, generating a first partition for presenting applications, and presenting a second partition for presenting command functions permitting movement between applications.
U.S. Patent No. 5961601, titled Preserving State Information in a Continuing Conversation Between a Client and Server Networked Via a Stateless Protocol. Issued in October 1999, it claims a computerized method for preserving state information in a conversation between a client adapted to request services from servers networked via a stateless protocol to a client in a way that preserves state information while a user browses HTML files, for example to enable a business transaction.
U.S. Patent No. 7072849, titled Method for Presenting Advertising in an Interactive Service. Issued in July 2006, it claims a method for presenting advertising obtained from a computer network by structuring applications so that they are presented at a first portion of a screen, structuring advertising to be presented at a second portion of a screen and selectively storing advertising objects at a store established at the reception system.
U.S. Patent No. 7631346, titled Method and System for a Runtime User Account Creation Operation Within a Single-Sign-On Process in a Federated Computing Environment. Issued in December 2009, it discloses a method for managing user authentication within a distributed data processing system to improve comprehensive single-sign-on experiences to users within a federated computing environment that involves a loosely coupled affiliation of enterprises.

IBM asserted that Groupon's business was built on the infringement of its patents.

Groupon asserted invalidity as a defense.

Outcome: Plaintiff's verdict for $85.5 million.

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