Wednesday, November 6, 2013

International Business Machines Corp. Accuses Twitter of Patent Infringement (IBM)



Twitter made an update to its S-1 Form, which outlined that the soon-to-be-public Twitter has received a letter from IBM Corp (IBM) stating that Twitter is infringing on three IBM patents.
The letter mentioned in the S-1 also says that IBM has invited Twitter to negotiate a business resolution for the allegations. 

Twitter had the following defense: “we believe we have meritorious defenses to IBM’s allegations, although there can be no assurance that we will be successful in defending against these allegations or reaching a business resolution that is satisfactory to us.” An actual patent infringement suit from one of the old guard tech companies could be bad news for Twitter, as it tries to focus on its IPO.
Aside from IBM, the most buzzed about change to Twitter’s S-1 is that the company now has its shares set at $23-$25, which is up from the company’s previous share price of $17-$20. Read more.

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