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Aug 9, 2011

Legal/Regulatory - Five retailers seek to block Akamai patent suit - Internet Retailer

Five online retailers—Abt Electronics Inc., Crutchfield Corp., L.L. Bean Inc., Newegg Inc. and PetMed Express Inc.—last week filed an amici curiae, or friend-of-the-court brief, in hopes of blocking a federal court appeal by Akamai Technologies Inc. and helping to prevent online shoppers from being dragged into e-commerce patent infringement cases. “The retailers are concerned about this setting a legal precedent—this is...