America’s Biggest Filer of Patent Suits Wants You to Know It Invented Shipping Notification

Like almost every online retailer, Spice Jungle LLC emails tracking numbers to customers when they place orders. That’s why the small firm was dumbfounded when it received a demand to pay $25,000 for the right to do so. It came from a company called Shipping & Transit LLC, which soon followed with a lawsuit saying the spice seller had infringed on its patents “through use of its electronic tracking, text, email and other messaging to customers."
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