Soverain Software LLC v. Newegg Inc.

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• emphasizing that “the question of obviousness as a matter of law receives de novo determination on appeal”
• finding that the use of use of hypertext to perform the known process of transmitting documents “was a routine incorporation of Internet technology into existing processes”
• finding no commercial success where the claimed elec- tronic commerce system “was abandoned by its developers and almost all of its original users”
• “The distinction proposed by Dr. Shamos and advanced by Soverain is not embodied in the claims and not reflected in the claim construction.”
• invalidating as obvious claim 41, which depends from claim 15

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