IBM sued Internet travel company Expedia for violating several of its technology patents

Blue technology giant IBM formally sued Internet travel company Expedia for infringing its patents, and IBM asserted in the claim that Expedia had illegally infringed several of its technology patents and even several patents dating back to the early days of the Internet, including online content distribution, advertising technology , Register login process, track the user previously exchange records and so on.

The lawsuit includes Expedia's site and mobile apps, as well as its subsidiaries HomeAway, Hotels.com, Hotwire and Orbitz, a lawsuit filed by IBM alleging that "defendants use IBM's patents as a basis for building their business model, Worse, in spite of several requests for consultations on the part of IBM, the defendants refused to obtain the license agreement through negotiation.

IBM has been negotiating for many times over the past six years, eventually having to hope that it will be settled through legal means.

At present, Expedia refused to respond to media comments.