Apple, PayPal, and Victoria's Secret have been slapped with a patent-infringement suit which alleges that their one-click online transaction-processing systems violate a 2004 patent held by a pair of companies that are no strangers to legal dust-ups.
The suit was filed in the US District Court for the District of Delaware - a state with favorable corporate laws - by Efficient Online Purchasing LLC and Cordance Corporation.
Efficient Online Purchasing appears to be a mere shell company: it shares the same Newport Beach, California, address as Acacia Research Corporation, a patent-management firm that describes itself as a "Leader in Patent Licensing" and which says on its website that its "subsidiaries partner with inventors and patent owners, license the patents to corporate users, and share the revenue."
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-- Edited by budnonymous on Tuesday 22nd of March 2011 12:41:30 AM