EBay v. Bidder's Edge
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eBay v. Bidder's Edge, 100 F. Supp. 2d 1058 (N.D. Cal. 2000), was a leading case applying the trespass to chattels doctrine to online activities. In 2000, eBay, an online auction company, successfully used the 'trespass to chattels' theory to obtain a preliminary injunction preventing Bidder's Edge, an auction data aggregator, from using a 'crawler' to gather data from eBay's website.[1] The opinion was a leading case applying 'trespass to chattels' to online activities, although its analysis has been criticized in more recent jurisprudence.
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eBay v. Bidder's Edge | |
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Court | United States District Court for the Northern District of California |
Decided | May 24, 2000 |
Docket nos. | 99-cv-21200 |
Citation | 100 F. Supp. 2d 1058 |
Court membership | |
Judge sitting | Ronald Whyte |
Keywords | |
trespass to chattels |
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