| 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 | |
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.[1][2] 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][2][3] 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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