{"id":9188,"date":"2013-01-28T14:48:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T20:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9188"},"modified":"2013-06-01T18:43:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T23:43:40","slug":"how-newegg-crushed-the-shopping-cart-patent-and-saved-online-retail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9188","title":{"rendered":"How Newegg crushed the \u201cshopping cart\u201d patent and saved online retail"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Soverain isn&#8217;t in the e-commerce business; it&#8217;s in the higher-margin business of filing patent lawsuits against e-commerce companies. And it has been quite successful until now. The company&#8217;s plan to extract a patent tax of about one percent of revenue from a huge swath of online retailers was snuffed out last week by Newegg and its lawyers, who won an appeal ruling [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/images\/stories\/opinions-orders\/2011-1009.Opinion.1-17-2013.1.PDF\">PDF<\/a>] that invalidates the three patents Soverain used to spark a vast patent war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/01\/how-newegg-crushed-the-shopping-cart-patent-and-saved-online-retail\/\">How Newegg crushed the \u201cshopping cart\u201d patent and saved online retail | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first patent troll story of the new year.\u00a0 I like Newegg.\u00a0 If I didn&#8217;t live so close to a brick and mortar Microcenter I&#8217;d probably use them a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soverain isn&#8217;t in the e-commerce business; it&#8217;s in the higher-margin business of filing patent lawsuits against e-commerce companies. And it has been quite successful until now. The company&#8217;s plan to extract a patent tax of about one percent of revenue &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9188\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1096,301],"class_list":["post-9188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-fight-back","tag-patent-trolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10314,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9188\/revisions\/10314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}