Will eBay Wield Newly Granted Auction Patent?

April 21st, 2010 admin

Bloggers broke the news on Tuesday that the U.S. Patent Office granted eBay an auction patent , 540. But it was Tom Woolston of MercExchange who filed the patent application in 1999, the inventor …


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