How Newegg crushed the “shopping cart” patent and saved online retail

Now this is the kind of legal officer I'd like to have on my side.

For Newegg's chief legal officer Lee Cheng, it's a huge validation of the strategy the company decided to pursue back in 2007: not to settle with patent trolls. Ever.

"We basically took a look at this situation and said, this is bullshit," said Cheng in an interview with Ars. "We saw that if we paid off this patent holder, we'd have to pay off every patent holder this same amount. This is the first case we took all the way to trial. And now, nobody has to pay Soverain jack squat for these patents."

It’s game over for a patent troll that sued nearly 50 big retailers.

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