My Encounter With a Patent Troll

Patent Troll

Few things get your attention like the threat of being sued, especially when you’re a small company. So you can imagine my reaction when I received a threatening letter from a company called Kelora presenting two choices: pay a $10,000 annual patent licensing fee within the month or face a lawsuit. You might think I’d [...]

Judge Sides With eCommerce Merchants in Patent Dispute

Some of the biggest names in e-commerce – Amazon,  eBay and Zappos, to name a few – have convinced a federal judge in Oakland to dismiss a patent infringement lawsuit filed by a company claiming to hold exclusive rights to search-filtering technology. If you own an e-commerce website that uses a search filter, chances are [...]