Newegg infringed patent?!?!

[silvarios]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/...3-million/

Glad those copycat scumbags got their just deserts.

/s

[WHiiP]

"The Newegg team was obviously crestfallen. But Newegg Chief Legal Officer Lee Cheng—who has said he will appeal any loss at this trial—made a point of congratulating the inventor after the verdict. "Congratulations Mr. Jones," he said. Cheng then added with a smile: "Get your money up front.""

[MrNoBody]

again?
miley-music039:

[silvarios]

MrNoBody wrote:
again?
miley-music039:

No. This is the verdict. Newegg has now legally infringed the patent.

[tenders]

I'd like to hear an explanation of what it is about that jurisdiction that is so darn favorable to the plaintiffs in these cases.

I agree with NewEgg that the patent is bogus. I don't really understand whether or not they technically violated it.

[deckeda]

Wow. I'd love to learn the jury's reasoning on this.

They must have felt the combined use of crypto + RC4 was significant as an invention even though both clearly had prior art. It's an interesting place to draw a line in the sand, as it ignores any practical use (Jones' modem thing went nowhere, and was ... a modem, not a shopping thing??) AND the prior art aspects.

[Black]

deckeda wrote:
Wow. I'd love to learn the jury's reasoning on this.

Cluelessness.

[bazookaman]

Clearly the Newegg lawyers underestimated the predictability of stupidity.

[sekker]

Newegg won the BIG battle against the trolls that wanted to patent the electronic shopping cart. Newegg was able to use the Compuserve network (complete with an online shopping cart) years before the Internet patents were filed to show prior art.

In this case, I still think the jury is clueless. But the bar is high - Newegg is trying to show a patent is invalid. And doing so without a direct one-to-one comparison.

The shopping cart was easy, by comparison. Just one screenshot of the Compuserve world using their shopping cart showed to anyone that the Internet version was not a new idea.

[deckeda]

This isn't over. In the electronic shopping cart trial against Soverain, Newegg also initially LOST and was ordered to pay $2.5M, down from the $34M asked for.

They won on appeal and paid nothing.