Legal Opinion

amazon.com, Inc. v. barnesandnoble.com, Inc. And barnesandnoble.com, LLC

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Decided February 14, 2001No. 00-1109PublishedCited by 405 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CLEVENGER, Circuit Judge.

This is a patent infringement suit brought by Amazon.com, Inc. (“Amazon”) against barnesandnoble.com, inc., and bar-nesandnoble.com 11c (together, “BN”). Amazon moved for a preliminary injunction to prohibit BN’s use of a feature of its web site called “Express Lane.” BN resist ed the preliminary injunction on several grounds, including that its Express Lane feature did not infringe the claims of Amazon’s patent, and that substantial questions exist as to the validity of Amazon’s patent. The United States District Court for the Western District of Washington rejected…

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