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· 3/15/2004

Amazon. Com Intern., Inc. v. Am. Dynasty Surplus Lines Insurance Company

Citations

  • 85 P.3d 974

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • concluding that because “Amazon’s website exists for the purpose of promoting products for sale to the public____ [the underlying] complaint thus implicitly alleged that Amazon used its product in the course of advertising” (emphasis added)
  • applying Washington law to conclude that a patented website music-preview technology is an advertising technique that could constitute an advertising idea
  • “[T]he advertising activities must cause the injury, not merely expose it; an injury that could have occurred independent and irrespective of any advertising is not an advertising injury.”
  • patented technology used to market music for sale on Internet Web site

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Judges: Ellington

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