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Lawrence Lessig Part of Amicus Brief in eBay Supreme Court Case
By Ina Steiner
AuctionBytes.com
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Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig joined 34 other patent law scholars in filing an amicus brief in support of eBay's petition for a writ of certiorari in the Supreme Court. eBay wants the high court to review the Federal Circuit ruling relating to the MercExchange patent case.
In 2003, a federal jury found eBay guilty of patent infringement and ordered eBay to pay $35 million in damages, but the judge denied MercExchange's request for an injunction against eBay. On appeal, the Federal Circuit reversed the district court's ruling to deny a permanent injunction against eBay.
Dennis Crouch, patent attorney at McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP, has been following the patent implications of the case and has links to key developments on his blog.
http://patentlaw.typepad.com/patent/2005/10/case_questionin.html
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