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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. Jury Nullification by seann · · Score: 4, Informative

    Maybe this looks like a job for:
    Jury Nullification

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  2. Federal PR by fm6 · · Score: 4, Informative

    PR clout? Federal appeals court judges serve for life. Once appointed by the Prez and confirmed by the Senate, they can't be removed short of impeachment, which is pretty rare. Makes it hard to apply political pressure to them.

  3. 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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  4. The gory details by AB3A · · Score: 4, Informative
    For those who are curious, the actual verdict is here, and the patent in question is 5,845,265

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