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it home reported on september 17 that ibm successfully persuaded a federal jury in delaware to determine that zynga, a mobile game company under take-two, infringed its patent rights and was required to pay $44.9 million in compensation (it home note: currently approximately rmb 319 million).

a jury ruled friday that zynga's games, including its "farmville" series, misused "foundational" networking technology and infringed two ibm patents related to network-based communications.

zynga denied ibm's allegations, arguing that the patents are invalid. zynga spokesman alan lewis said on monday that the company was disappointed with the verdict, but believed it would win the appeal; an ibm spokesman said it was satisfied with the verdict.

in fact, ibm not only sued zynga, but also filed lawsuits against other internet companies in 2022 for related technology infringement, some of which involved the internet service prodigy in the late 1980s.

in march, ibm announced it was ending its lawsuit against pet food seller chewy, and then in june it settled with japanese e-commerce site rakuten ichiba for an undisclosed amount; another online marketplace, groupon, settled with ibnm for $57 million in 2018.