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Posted at August 10, 2003, 2:45 pm:

Federal judge has ordered eBay to pay $29 Million to a
gentleman who claimed he held the original design patent
on portions of the eBay Online Auction Format.

What do you think about the ruling? I say good for Thomas Woolston.

Links to story ->

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/08/07/ebay.patents.ap/index.html

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/05/27/national1839EDT0691.DTL

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24895-2003Aug6.html

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Replies:

I think it's a lousy deal that such a thing ever got to court in the f...

The only portion of the suit that the judge upheld was the patent for ...

Sorry - double post Connie Gray Horse Emporium http://www.

to top it off, ebay's buy-it-now is stupid anyway.

I suppose some high priced lawyer could convince some people that beca...

You are indeed mistaken about the role of the USPTO.

Thanks for the link, I'm off to learn something.

I think you're referring to bustpatents.

Hello, What are the ramifications of this patent ruling affectin...

the ramifications could be a disaster.

So does this mean I should TOTALLY abandon the idea of starting my own...

-+matt.

The patent system was set up to encourage innovation .

Romahawk, I believe you are on to something there.

One of the BBS packages that ran a store module was Searchlight for th...

Question is .

To my knowledge eBay hasn't rolled over in this case.

Speaking from personal experience .

A business method patent need not involve software nor anything to do ...

Couldn't agree more.

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