Last year, in a case involving eBay, the court granted patent infringers more wiggle room against injunctions.

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Last year, in a case involving eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ), the court granted patent infringers more wiggle room against injunctions.

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The company started in the temperature-controls business in 1885, two years after its founder, Warren S. Johnson, a professor at the State Normal School in Whitewater, Wisconsin, received a patent for the electric room thermostat.

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