U.S. Supreme Court Hears eBay Case Wednesday

siddesu wrote to mention an article on CNN Money about the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court patent suit involving eBay. We've previously mentioned the case. The SCOTUS will hear opening arguments on Wednesday, March 29th. From the article: "Lawyers for eBay and small e-commerce company MercExchange will square off over whether eBay should be barred from using its popular 'Buy it Now' feature, which infringes on two MercExchange patents. The case is being closely watched to see if the high court will scale back the right of patent holders to get an injunction barring infringers from using their technologies. Software companies complain they can be held for ransom by owners of questionable patents while drugmakers oppose any weakening of patent rights, which they say would chill their investment in new medicines."

Comments

Re:Place Your Bids

[raygundan]

I'm surprised a nigerian scammer hasn't already clicked the "buy it now" option and attempted to pay with a forged paypal email that doesn't even have the right return email address.

It's happened to me four times in the last six days.

Bush's fault

[Arandir]

All this patent mess is Bush's fault!