A patent-infringement claim filed against Salt Lake City-based Overstock.com by Furnace Brook LLC of New York has been rejected again, this time by a federal appeals court. Furnace Brook asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., to overturn a district court-level ruling that threw out the company's suit against Overstock.com. The plaintiff alleged Overstock.com helped build its online retail-sales company by improperly taking advantage of one of Furnace Brook's Internet-related patents. The Court of Appeals rejected that argument last week. Overstock.com attorneys called the suit frivolous and characterized Furnace Brook officials as "patent trolls." "We respect legitimate intellectual property rights of others, but patent trolls are another matter. This federal court's decision validates our decision to fight patent trolls. Furnace Brook can no longer use this patent to try to hold up Internet retailers," said Overstock's chief attorney, Jonathan Johnson.

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