SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon.com is taking a big swing at a big nonpracticing-entity target.
The Seattle-based online retailer is trying to knock out web-based patents asserted by one of the world’s most successful IP licensers as indefinite means-plus-function claims. Amazon is attacking in bold strokes in Seattle district court just as momentum seems to be building at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for a rethink on the law of functional claiming—or patenting an outcome rather than the structure for achieving it.
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