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eBay guilty Of Patent Infringement, Ordered To Pay

Posted by timothy on from the cure-worse-than-disease dept.

theodp writes "Remember that patent infringement lawsuit brought against eBay? A U.S. District Court jury just ordered the online auction house to pay $35 million for infringing on patents for programs and procedures to operate an Internet-based auction."

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  1. Jurors. by saden1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nothing worse than incompetent jurors. The idea of someone being able to patent the processes of auctioning is just appalling. What these jurors need to get through their head is that if something exist in some other form it shouldn't be patentable. I care not for eBay but this is ridiculous.

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