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Then, while the case was winding through the appeals process, the patent office in 2005 issued "initial" rejections of all three patents. Woolston, who is appealing the rejections, says eBay's infringements and dominance of online auctions virtually killed off his auction site, MercExchange, and says nothing less than an injunction will satisfy him. "We want the injunction so eBay's power sellers come to our site," he maintains. You can imagine eBay's view of that position. The case is so important that eBay has hired big-name lobbyists in Washington, such as the Ashcroft Group, a lobbying shop...
...cost-conscious brides are doing these days. She shopped for her wedding dress on eBay. And she found it: a beautiful Monique Lhuillier design that was lacy and sophisticated and everything she had hoped for. Smith started bidding. And hoping. And bidding again. At the end of the auction, unfortunately, her bid of $2,400 wasn't high enough to meet the seller's hidden reserve price. That meant the dress didn't sell. Smith was disappointed. Until she received a message from the seller--or, rather, someone she thought was the seller--agreeing to accept her bid but asking...
...Bridgeville won fame as the first town to be auctioned on eBay in 2002, with a winning bid of $1.77 million. The sellers turned to the Internet auction site after real estate agents couldn't unload the unincorporated town - with no grocery store, gas station or restaurant - that's accessible only from a two-lane highway. But the eBay buyer vanished after discovering during a visit that the spot 260 miles north of San Francisco was teaming with abandoned shacks, garbage and decrepit buildings. After a succession of spooked online buyers also backed away, Bruce Krall, a commercial mortgage banker...
...think Larry’s DNA is on the bread roll?” asked one potential bidder, according to Hay. “If I win this auction, can I use saliva DNA to clone Larry...
...auction has already earned acclaim outside of Cambridge. The dinner roll has been honored at Way Out Auctions, a website that chronicles some of the stranger items available on eBay...