Patent Suit Could Hurt EBay
News MercExchange has suggested a specific figure to settle the case, but the court has sealed the report and the amount sought is unavailable, said Scott Robertson, an attorney with Hunton & Williams, who represents Woolston and MercExchange.
[September 5, 2002, 13:28]
Ebay Patent Case Moves Closer To Trial
News At the heart of the eBay-MercExchange fight is a series of patents that MercExchange founder Tom Woolston began applying for in the spring of 1995, some five months before eBay founder Pierre Omidyar launched the Web site.
[October 28, 2002, 9:25]
Supreme Court Rules In Favour Of EBay
News That injunction, which was put on hold pending the Supreme Court appeal, followed a 2003 jury finding that eBay's "buy-it-now" feature, which allows customers to purchase items without participating in an auction, had infringed on two of...
[May 16, 2006, 10:00]
