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British group sues Amazon over IPR
Friday, 8 October 2004British patent licensing group BTG has filed a lawsuit against online retail giant Amazon.com for allegedly infringing its rights over web tracking technology.
The suit against Amazon and several other US retailers, including BarnesandNoble.com, Netflix Inc and Overstock.com, concerns technology that allows firms to track customers movements on the web.
The suit asks for unspecified damages for past infringing activity and an injunction against future use of the technology, BTG said in a statement.
The lawsuit, filed in the US Federal Court in Delaware, includes a charge of infringing a patent owned by BTG for tracking visitors as they travel from one website to another and also alleges that
Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com infringed another patent that attaches a navigational history to URL links between webpages.
BTG had originally tried to negotiate a deal with the firms to license the patents, but had not been able to come to an agreement.
The company, set up by the government to protect and patent the country's intellectual property, is notoriously litigious and earlier this month sued Microsoft and Apple for including patented technology in their operating systems that allows people to get software updates over the internet.
The two patents, listed as United States Patent Numbers 5,717,860 and 5,712,979, respectively, were both filed on September 20th 1995 and BTG purchased the patents from Infonautics in 2002.
The suit against Amazon and several other US retailers, including BarnesandNoble.com, Netflix Inc and Overstock.com, concerns technology that allows firms to track customers movements on the web.
The suit asks for unspecified damages for past infringing activity and an injunction against future use of the technology, BTG said in a statement.
The lawsuit, filed in the US Federal Court in Delaware, includes a charge of infringing a patent owned by BTG for tracking visitors as they travel from one website to another and also alleges that
Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com infringed another patent that attaches a navigational history to URL links between webpages.
BTG had originally tried to negotiate a deal with the firms to license the patents, but had not been able to come to an agreement.
The company, set up by the government to protect and patent the country's intellectual property, is notoriously litigious and earlier this month sued Microsoft and Apple for including patented technology in their operating systems that allows people to get software updates over the internet.
The two patents, listed as United States Patent Numbers 5,717,860 and 5,712,979, respectively, were both filed on September 20th 1995 and BTG purchased the patents from Infonautics in 2002.