BackWeb Sues IBM And HP Over Information Transfer Technology Patents

Looks like IBM and HP have just been hit with patent infringement lawsuits. According to a release, BackWeb Technologies has filed separate lawsuits in the United States District Court in San Francisco, California against IBM and HP, alleging patent infringement. The patents seems to deal with technology for transmitting information between a remote network and a local computer and distributed client-based data caching systems. BackWeb alleges that IBM?s Tivoli Provisioning Manager and IBM?s recently acquired BigFix products infringe four U.S. patents owned by BackWeb. BackWeb also alleges that HP?s Client Automation product infringes three U.S. patents owned by BackWeb covering methods for transmitting information between a remote network and a local computer.

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