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Originally Posted by fishface
Silly Amazon and its overactive legal department. It's a pretty weak case, and it doesn't really mean anything unless Amazon actually tries to use it, and any tech company targetted by this will have another stack of patents to countersue Amazon with, and then everybody would lose out. Won't happen.
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I wonder though. Amazon, B&N, and Spring are all relatively new to the hardware business-how many patents/cross patents do you really think they have to threaten to sue/countersue with? (Unlike the more mature cellphone/PC markets-which have tons of previous art/patent stocking)