25.06.2008 07:21 Uhr, Quelle: 9to5Mac

Legal news: Apple online store threatened with shut down

Apple and HP's online shopping system has won an unusual customer - Clear with Computers (CWC) - which has filed a patent infringement lawsuit claiming Apple and HP's online stores, websites, marketing and sales and supply chain systems infringe on patents held by CWC. As explained in court documents filed in the Texas Eastern court this week, and available here, the case alleges HP and Apple infringed against the CWC-held United States Patent No. 5,615,342, entitled “Electronic Proposal Preparation System,” which was issued on March 25, 1997 and US Patent No. 5,367,627, "Computer-Assisted Parts Sales Method", itself issued November 22, 1994. These basically explain a system in which customers sign into an ele

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