How Newegg crushed the “shopping cart” patent and saved online retail
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#2I love the non-lawyerly language... "screw them, seriously, screw them". So refreshing to hear a corporate guy speak like a human being instead of a highly trained PR bot.
Re: How Newegg crushed the “shopping cart” patent and saved online retail
#3I love the non-lawyerly language... "screw them, seriously, screw them". So refreshing to hear a corporate guy speak like a human being instead of a highly trained PR bot.
It's the Chinese way :)
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#4Really glad to see this, these costs to pay patent trolls would have been passed along to the consumer in some way.
Good job, Newegg!
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#5Great news. I was surprised to read that in a way similar to the Apple case against Samsung, the judge (in the Apple case, it was the foreman) told the jury to completely ignore the validity of the patents in District Court. It still makes absolutely no sense to me, so if someone could fill me in I would appreciate it.
I read that the judge said jurors would be confused... is this normal in any other type of case? Not a satisfying explanation.
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#6> That was OpenMarket, a software company that originally created these patents before going out of business in 2001.
Whenever exec's talk about needing to file patents for "self defense" I always think of cases like this. I don't know anything about OpenMarket, but I'm guessing they had similar logic. Then they go belly-up and these toxic patents make their way into a trolls portfolio.
No matter the company, IMHO, it's generally best to abstain from any patent fishing expeditions.
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#7To celebrate this I am going to go buy some expensive electronics from newegg.
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#8It seems unfair somehow that our whole industry benefits from Newegg individually taking on the risk and expense of bringing a patent to litigation and appeal. Maybe more patents would be challenged if there were more cooperative efforts to bust bad patents.
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#9Comparing patent trolls to bacteria would be an unforgivable and entirely unwarranted insult to bacteria everywhere. Even the plague bacterium deserves better.
We need to see alot more of this happening - hopefully this will show people there is another way to go, i.e. never ever settle with a patent troll, no matter how scary the alternative may seem to be. 3 patents invalidated but thousands to go. It is disgusting that these trolls managed to collect so much money before their garbage patents were ruled as such.
Re: How Newegg crushed the “shopping cart” patent and saved online retail
#10Comparing patent trolls to bacteria would be an unforgivable and entirely unwarranted insult to bacteria everywhere. Even the plague bacterium deserves better. We need to see alot more of this happening - hopefully this will show people there is another way to go, i.e. never ever settle with a patent troll, no matter how scary the alternative may seem to be. 3 patents invalidated but thousands to go. It is disgusting…
I think you might be going a little far and taking this a little far... considering the black plague killed between 75 - 200 million people e.g. 30-60% of the population in europe...
I agree patients are bad, but let's not take things out of perspective ...