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Patent Law

: The Patent Prospector

Money Changes Everything

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

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MercExchange's patent assertion against eBay's "Buy It Now" feature resulted in a Supreme Court ruling that, using a four-factor test, essentially denied injunctive relief unless the patent holder was a direct competitor to an infringer. Thursday, eBay announced that it bought three patents from Merchange for an undisclosed amount, including 5,845,265, the centerpiece of the matter.

Denied injunction, eBay was order to pay MercExchange $30 million in damages.

Whatever the pay off was to MercExchange, it was reportedly not large enough to ruffle eBay's profit outlook.

The other purchased patents were 6,085,176 and 6,202,051.

Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on March 01, 2008 (boomark / email).

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