Yahoo! News posts this article by Toni Locy of the Associated Press reporting that a suit filed by Thomas Woolston against eBay is now being heard by the Supreme Court:
Justices were hearing a dispute between the popular Web-based marketplace and a small Virginia patent holder over an idea for selling products on the Internet.
MercExchange, founded by patent lawyer Thomas Woolston, sued eBay and its subsidiary Half.com Inc. in 2001, alleging infringement of patents dating to 1995, shortly before eBay’s launch on the Web.