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May 15, 2006, 5:35AM -- (BW) Orbit Drop Announces Their New Dallas Location, an Integrated Business

By Business Editors (c) 2006 Business Wire DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2006--Orbit Drop Inc. (Pink Sheets:OBDP) announces their new Dallas location.

Orbit Drop Inc. is pleased to announce their new Dallas location, which is an integration of the new product line and an existing business. "Our new associates are very pleased with the opportunity to utilize the internet auctioning system to sell their product. With their existing customer base, our product and training is proving to be a formula for success," stated CEO Marisa Wolfcale. "We will be releasing additional news on our company's new programs in the coming weeks and are very excited with the response we are receiving from our consumers."

About OrbitDrop: -- Orbit Drop, Inc. is in support of retail and B2B eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY - News) drop-off stores. OrbitDrop locations offer an easy and convenient way to sell items online. The concept is a store where people come to make money, not spend it. OrbitDrop stores handle the entire selling process whether it is one or many items, a small piece of jewelry, a car or a house. The highly talented and trained staff in each store knows exactly how and when to list items to achieve the best sales price. A customer provides OrbitDrop with an item; OrbitDrop researches the value, takes photos, writes a description, answers buyer questions, processes payment, packs and ships the item then mails a check to the seller.

For more information about Orbit Drop, Inc. visit www.orbitdrop.com

Matters discussed in this press release are "forward-looking" statements. Statements describing objectives or goals or the Company's future plans are also forward-looking statements and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including the financial performance of the Company and market valuations of its stock, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated.

The EBay effect Supreme Court ruling on auction pioneer could usher in long-overdue patent reform.
May 17, 2006
THE SUPREME COURT'S RULING on patent law came a few weeks too late to help the company that makes the BlackBerry, but it is all the buzz among the BlackBerry set. And with any luck, the decision, announced Monday, will create some buzz in Congress for patent reform.

The case pitted auction giant EBay Inc. against MercExchange, a defunct e-commerce company. Inconveniently for the former, MercExchange holds patents related to EBay's bread and butter: online auctions and fixed-price consignment sales. In 2003, a U.S. District Court jury found that the patents had been violated, and two years later, an appeals court ruled that MercExchange was automatically entitled to an injunction against EBay.

In a unanimous ruling, the justices disagreed � not only with the appeals court but with a nearly 100-year-old Supreme Court precedent on patent law. That case, which stemmed from a dispute over paper-bag manufacturing techniques, held that an injunction was mandatory in almost all cases of patent infringement. Thus the scales were tilted in favor of patent holders, who could use the threat of an injunction to win disproportionately rich licensing deals.

The new decision relies on a more literal interpretation of federal patent law, which says courts "may" impose an injunction when appropriate. The standards for applying injunctions in patent cases are no different from any other case, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the decision. Courts will have to consider the facts and balance the interests involved.

The ruling won't necessarily spare EBay from an injunction; that's up to the lower courts to decide. But the balancing tests laid out for the courts will significantly reduce the negotiating leverage of firms whose sole business is amassing obscure patents and collecting fees from potential infringers.

Two months ago, the likelihood of an injunction helped prod Research in Motion Ltd., the maker of the BlackBerry, to pay patent-holder NTP Inc. (whose main business is collecting patents and suing over them) a $612.5-million settlement for violating patents related to wireless e-mail. Without a credible threat of its BlackBerry service being shut down, Research in Motion probably would have kept trying to get NTP's patents revoked, as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had tentatively agreed to do.

The patent office is second-guessing itself on some MercExchange patents as well, which points to a fundamental problem that the Supreme Court didn't address. The system yields too many bad patents, particularly when business methods are concerned. Proposals that would significantly strengthen the process have been bottled up in Congress. Now that the Supreme Court has started fixing the patent morass, lawmakers need to finish the job.

Software industry targets pirated software sold on eBay Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal - 2:45 PM

The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) on Tuesday announced it filed three lawsuits over alleged pirated software bought through the online auction site eBay Inc.

The suits in U.S. District Court, Central District of California, are the first filed under SIIA's new Auction Litigation Program, which aims to monitor popular online sites like San Jose-based eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY), identifying individuals or groups selling pirated software and prosecuting them on behalf of the association's member companies.

The suits involve software allegedly pirated from Cupertino-based Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ:SYMC) and Santa Clara-based McAfee Inc. (NYSE:MFE) and sold through eBay auctions between October and December 2005. According to SIIA, pirated copies of Symantec's Norton SystemWorks 2005 Premier, Norton Ghost 9.0, Norton pcAnywhere 11.5, Norton PartitionMagic 8.0, and McAfee's Virus Scan 9.0 were sold by at least three different individuals. The exact total of software pirates is not known, the association said, because it is likely that at least one individual is using multiple aliases.

SIIA said its Auction Litigation Program was designed because current strategies, such as taking down auctions through eBay's Verified Rights Owner program "have not adequately remedied the problem."

Psychic: Elvis blessed eBay purchase of his old house -- Published May 17, 2006

Celebrity spoon-bender Uri Geller has bought a house lived in by Elvis Presley before he moved to Graceland--on eBay, the Internet auction site.

Geller, who bought the house in Tennessee for $905,100 with two partners, plans to restore and open the home to the public, the BBC reported.

"This is a piece of history," said Geller.

Geller met Presley in Las Vegas in the 1970s when the rock 'n' roll star asked him to perform his spoon-bending trick.

According to Geller, the King may have given him a sign.

"As the clock closed on the bidding Sunday, I felt intuitively I got the price," Geller said. "Suddenly the radio started playing an Elvis song. That was Elvis telling me we got the house."

Presley bought the four-bedroom home in 1956. He stayed for only a year because he wanted more security--which he found at Graceland.

In the short time Presley lived there, he had a granite swimming pool installed in the garden, which at 50 feet was the largest residential pool in the city at the time.

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