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IBM Sues Amazon Over E-Commerce Patents
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN
The Associated Press
Monday, October 23, 2006; 2:03 PM
BOSTON -- IBM Corp. alleged in two lawsuits Monday that important components of Amazon.com Inc.'s massive retailing Web site were developed and patented many years earlier at IBM.
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