{"id":6900,"date":"2013-01-27T20:55:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T01:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6900"},"modified":"2013-01-27T20:56:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T01:56:03","slug":"how-newegg-crushed-the-shopping-cart-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/27\/how-newegg-crushed-the-shopping-cart-patent\/","title":{"rendered":"How Newegg Crushed the &ldquo;Shopping Cart&rdquo; Patent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/01\/how-newegg-crushed-the-shopping-cart-patent-and-saved-online-retail\/\">Joe Mullin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/01\/how-newegg-crushed-the-shopping-cart-patent-and-saved-online-retail\/\"><p>The ruling effectively shuts down dozens of the lawsuits Soverain filed last year against Nordstrom&rsquo;s, Macy&rsquo;s, Home Depot, Radioshack, Kohl&rsquo;s, and many others. All of them did nothing more than provide shoppers with basic online checkout technology. Soverain used two patents, numbers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US5715314\">5,715,314<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US5909492\">5,909,492<\/a>, to claim ownership of the &ldquo;shopping carts&rdquo; commonly used in online stores. In some cases, it wielded a third patent, No. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US7272639\">7,272,639<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Mullin: The ruling effectively shuts down dozens of the lawsuits Soverain filed last year against Nordstrom&rsquo;s, Macy&rsquo;s, Home Depot, Radioshack, Kohl&rsquo;s, and many others. All of them did nothing more than provide shoppers with basic online checkout technology. Soverain used two patents, numbers 5,715,314 and 5,909,492, to claim ownership of the &ldquo;shopping carts&rdquo; commonly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[209,304,40,303],"class_list":["post-6900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-legal","tag-newegg","tag-patents","tag-soverain"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6902,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions\/6902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}