| Chewy Sues
IBM Calling It A Patent Troll Citing Suits
Against Expedia & Zillow in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 8 – Chewy has sued
International Business
Machines Corporation, calling
IBM a patent troll and seeking
a judgment declarying that
Chewy does not infringe the
patents IBM threatened it
about.
On October 8 U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Jed S. Rakoff held held
a lengthy claim construction
hearing. Inner City Press
covered it.
Chewy noted that IBM on
patents has sued Twitter
(2013), Priceline (2015),
Groupon (2016), Expedia
(2017), Zillow (2019) and
Airbnb (2020), and quotes that
they "basically surrendered
and agreed to pay IBM loads of
money without any actual trial
that tests the patents at
hand."
Elsewhere,
the complaint notes IBM
threats against Amazon as
well, though not a lawsuit.
It says,
"Chewy is under a reasonable
apprehension that it will be
sued by IBM for the alleged
infringement of the Asserted
Patents." Judge Rakoff heard
them from the start, scheduled
for 2:15 pm to 6 pm.
The case is
Chewy, Inc. v. International
Business Machines Corporation,
21-cv-1319 (Rakoff)
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