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I still have a Divine laptop bag in my garage…
I actually worked for a company that was bought out by a company that was bought out by Divine, so for a couple of years I worked for and was paid by Divine, and even received a redundancy settlement from them when they went bust in the UK. Collapse replies (2) Reply View in chronology Gatekeeper of Intellectual Property Created on behalf of someone no one knowsĭirect (555) 555-5555 / (555) 555-5555 – 9 am to 8 pm EST. President – Alliance for American Ideas You Can’t Use
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Maybe if TechDUD could understand facts they would know that Open Market only failed because big companies like Amazon stold their ideas and never paid them the money they deserved for TEACHING people how to create shopping carts.Įvery new idea seems easy when you never come up with any yourself. “While Open Market failed, the patents have lived on.”Įven Mike admits that the real problem is big corporations stealing the ideas of the little guy and using their fat corporate bank accounts to steam roll them.
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It’s pretty ridiculous to see anyone defend what has become a blatant tax on online retail now, from a company that did nothing to advance the space.įiled Under: e-commerce, patents, shopping cartĬompanies: newegg, open market, soverain software They’ll say that we can’t really say that the idea of an online shopping cart was “obvious” back when these patents were filed, but that’s pretty laughable. I can’t wait to see how our favorite patent system defenders defend this one. Penney, Amway, HSN, QVC, Shutterfly, Victoria’s Secret and more - and that case is in front of the same judge who just ruled in Soverain’s favor - so it doesn’t look good. And since that lawsuit was filed, Soverain, more recently, sued a whole bunch more companies, including J.C. The Newegg case originally involved six other companies (including Zappos), though all of the others settled. And, because of that, Soverain has the ability to just keep on suing.
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I hadn’t heard much about the patents, but it appears that Soverain has been busy again, and sued popular online tech retailer Newegg… and, unfortunately, as reader Ron Murphy let us know, a court in East Texas (of course) found that Newegg infringed… though, the details show that the jury did not find “direct” infringement, but rather “indirect infringement.” However, last month, the judge’s ruling sided with Soverain over Newegg, meaning that Newegg may have a huge bill facing it.Įven if Newegg fights this, Soverain has been suing all sorts of companies over the years, with many of them just agreeing to license the patent to avoid having to go through a lawsuit. Because fighting patent battles is costly, Amazon eventually just paid off Soverain. Next we heard of them, was in 2004, when Amazon was sued over those patents, by a company called Soverain software - who bought the patents in 2003 or 2004 out of bankruptcy from Devine.
In struggling for some way (any way, please!) to make some money, the company realized it had Open Market’s shopping cart patents and announced plans to sue way back in 2002. There was an internet company in Chicago, called Divine, that went through more business models than you can imagine, and somewhere along the line it bought the remains of Open Market. While Open Market failed, the patents have lived on. If you’ve been following the absolute ridiculousness of software patents for a while, you’re probably aware of the infamous Open Market “online shopping cart” patents ( 7,272,639, 5,715,314 and 5,909,492). Fri, Sep 10th 2010 10:41am - Mike Masnick