Auction site ensnared in dispute over patents

Monday, September 30, 2002

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- On a typically sultry summer afternoon in the nation's capital, eBay attorney Andrew Kumamoto walked into a conference room to talk patents with a Virginia inventor.

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