The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases
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Case summary:The company SS filed a suit against many online retailers for infringement of the patent right. All online retailers paid damages but one of them filed a case in court and won the case. The court passed the judgment that online shopping cart patent claim was not enforceable because the technology already existed before the company S obtained the patent over it.
To Find:Whether the elimination of software patent would be fair to software and technology companies.
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