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PINPOINT, INC. v. AMAZON.COM, INC.

No. 03 C 4954.

347 F.Supp.2d 579 (2004)

PINPOINT, INC., Plaintiff, v. AMAZON.COM, INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

December 6, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred H. Bartlit, Jr., Philip Scott Beck, Mark Edward Ferguson, Peter Benjamin Bensinger, Jr., Shawn F. Fagan, Mark S. Ouweleen, Rebecca Weinstein Bacon, Paul J. Skiermont, Adam K. Mortara, Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott Lip, Chicago, IL, Jennifer E. Heisinger, Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott Lip, Denver, CO, for Plaintiff.

Todd Clark Jacobs, Laura K. McNally, Robert David Donoghue, Robert Davis Stonebraker, Grippo & Elden, Chicago, IL, Lynn H. Pasahow, J. David Hadden, Darren Donnelly, Wendy Bjerknes, Lynne A. Maher, Jedediah Phillips, Fenwick & West Lip, Mountain View, CA, for Defendants.

OPINION

POSNER, Circuit Judge, Sitting by Designation.

Pinpoint filed this suit last year against Amazon.com and affiliates (for simplicity I'll pretend that "Amazon.com" is the only defendant) for infringement of two business-method patents, U.S. Patent Nos. 5,758,257 and 6,088,722. The patents describe methodologies based on statistical theory, mathematics, and formal logic by which a retailer such as Amazon...

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