This week’s Patently Obvious report focuses on the patent holdings of XPRT Ventures. On July 13, 2010, XPRT Ventures, LLC filed a lawsuit against eBay, Inc., PayPal, Inc., Bill Me Later, Inc., Shopping.com, Inc. and StubHub, Inc., alleging that these companies had infringed six XPRT patents pertaining to online auction and payment methods.
According to the complaint, XPRT asserts that eBay stole information shared in confidence by XPRT and integrated it into its own payment systems. XPRT is demanding at least $3.8 billion in monetary damages, in addition to treble damages.
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