"In 2014, a fast-growing technology company called ServiceNow faced a lawsuit from Hewlett-Packard, which claimed it had violated eight of HP's patents. HP wanted unspecified damages, plus royalties going forward. One patent was for technology that stored information alphabetically in a computer system. It involved complicated issues that the smartest layperson might struggle to understand."

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