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eBay Patent Case Heads To Trial
from the who-needs-venture-capital-when-you-can-just-sue? dept
Last year we mentioned the story of a guy who seemed to believe he had patented the idea of an auction a few months before eBay began. The guy was unable to raise money to start his own eBay, and instead decided to sit back and sue other companies that figured out how to execute where he had failed. The case is now going to trial, where eBay hopes they'll prevail. However, they admit that, should they lose, it could have a very strong negative impact on their business. I would think that centuries of auctions would invalidate such a patent, but it seems the patent office believes that everything is different when it goes online.
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In other news...
...person claims to have invented capitalism sues all the world's businesses; says they can individually settle for a lifetime license for just $1.
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Hmmm...
I wonder if I could pull copies of all existing web patents, do a search and replace for Internet and replace it with Internet2 and own the entire future before it even exists?
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