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eBay Inc. was sued for allegedly infringing
patents that related to the display of auction information online technology, tamebay.com reported. Patent-holding company Advanced Auctions LLC claimed
that eBay used their technology to update bid and pricing information in the
last hour of an auction.
Advanced Auctions LLC explained that
“eBay’s webpages present bidders with information regarding the time remaining
in the auction and the current bid amount. Before the final hour of the
auction, Defendant eBay does not automatically update its webpages with this
information. Rather, the bidder must manually refresh their browser to request
and obtain current auction information. In the final hour of the auction, this
information is automatically updated“, in their complaint, Tamebay said. Advanced Auctions is seeking for a judgment
that eBay’s infringement, damages and injunction preventing.
Ebay had patent infringement issue in July
2010. EBay was sued for $3.8 billion by XPRT Ventures that accused eBay of
stealing information shared in confidence by the inventors on XPRT's own
patents. Read more about this issue on Reuters.
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