Patent Troll defeated over shopping cart patent
Online retailer Newegg has successfully defeated a lawsuit filed by patent holding firm Soverain Software that accused Newegg of infringing upon patents covering the online “shopping cart” that customers use on retail websites to virtually hold the goods they want to buy.
The best news for online retailers, Ars reports, is that Newegg successfully got three of Soverain’s patents invalidated, which “effectively shuts down dozens of the lawsuits Soverain filed last year against Nordstrom’s, Macy’s, Home Depot, RadioShack, Kohl’s, and many others.”
“We basically took a look at this situation and said, ‘This is bulls***’” Newegg chief legal officer Lee Cheng.
“We saw that if we paid off this patent holder, we’d have to pay off every patent holder this same amount. This is the first case we took all the way to trial.
And now, nobody has to pay Soverain jack squat for these patents.”
Seriously?
A patent for a shopping cart?
Should have never been granted in the first place.
That is excellent news. I wish patent and copyright laws could be overhauled to prevent the frivolous lawsuits that are devouring corporate funds. Trolling should be against the law, not innovation.