IBM has sued online deals marketplace Groupon for infringing four of its patents, including two that emerged from Prodigy, the online service launched by IBM and partners ahead of the World Wide Web.

IBM has sued online deals marketplace Groupon for infringing four of its patents, including two that emerged from Prodigy, the online service launched by IBM and partners ahead of the World Wide Web.

IBM is pushing big Internet companies to pay patent licensing fees in part because IBM invented the Prodigy service, a precursor to the modern Web. The Prodigy patents were filed in 1993 and 1996, but ...

IBM filed a lawsuit against Chicago e-commerce company Groupon Wednesday for patent infringement, in part based on technology it says Groupon stole from Prodigy, an online service and AOL competitor ...

Plenty of suitors are lining up for Prodigy, the ugly duckling of online services. With IBM and Sears reportedly interested in selling Prodigy, phone companies, software and media firms and even other ...

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From 1988 to 1996, IBM and Sears jointly operated a graphically rich online service called Prodigy, which allowed users from all over the United States to dial in and view weather, stocks, news, and ...

IBM has a long history of getting paid for its patents. When its $1 billion licensing juggernaut hits the occasional bump in the road, it often results in a high-profile lawsuit. That happened this ...

Talk that Sears, Roebuck and Co. and International Business Machines Corp. will sell Prodigy Services Co. swirled through the business community Monday. The rumors were fueled by a Wall Street Journal ...