Charles E. Hill & Associates v. CompuServe Incorporated

On August 24, 2000, a United States Federal District Court in Indianapolis ruled that CompuServe did not infringe the patent of Charles E. Hill & Associates, Inc., which claimed its patent covered on-line shopping. Hill had claimed that Web-based, on-line shopping infringed the Hill Patent and alleged that CompuServe infringed upon the Hill Patent owner’s exclusive right to make, use, sell and offer to sell the systems and processes used to conduct on-line shopping on the World Wide Web.