01-31-2006, 10:59 AM
Quote:Two early Internet inventors charged Amazon.com (Quote, Chart) and Target (Quote, Chart) with infringing on their patents.
In a suit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, John Klug and Thad Peterson, doing business as Registrar Systems, claim that Amazon.com's e-commerce technology platform improperly uses their system.
According to the suit, the '785 patent covers a method for registering a user at multiple Web sites by storing the user's information in a databases, and then providing users with identifier that allow access; finally, the system supplies the user ID and the stored information to another Web site.
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