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(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc and 17 other companies with retail websites escaped claims brought by tech company SpeedTrack Inc that they infringed its patent covering improved data organization and search functions, fending off an appeal at the Federal Circuit on Thursday.
The logo of the web service Amazon is pictured in this June 8, 2017 illustration photo. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso.
The inventors who applied for the patent specified during the patent application process that it didn’t cover the features that the companies allegedly infringed, U.S. Circuit Judge Sharon Prost wrote for a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.