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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. This is great because, by Dr.+Bent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

    You can boycott Amazon.com all you want. You can make T-Shirts. Post on slashdot....whatever. But until you get a big company with lots of lawyers and money, fighting for what you want, it's never going to happen.

    Now, E-bay will probably not want to do away with the entire software patent system (which is the right way to go, in my opinion), but unless you have someone to fight the battle, you're never going to win the war.

  2. Re:Federal PR by shaitand · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This didn't stop microsoft.

  3. Deja-vu by Alomex · · Score: 3, Interesting


    Reading back the original discussion is amazing how many posts were far off the mark and how few were right on the button. For one, I didn't see any among the dozens and dozens I read who even mentioned the "buy it now" aspect of the patent...