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amazon.com defends cordance’s one　-click patent claims (update1) by phil milford aug. 4 (bloomberg) -- amazon.com inc., the world’s largest onl　ine retailer, was accused by cordance corp. of infringing three patents for buying goods on the internet as a federal jury trial began. cordance, a patent holder and software developer based in sammamish, washington, is seeking unspecified royalties from seattle-based amazon based on an estimated $2.7 billion in sales since 2006 from so-called one　-click transactions. “we don’t think we infringe” and the product-ordering invention by cordance’s drummond reed involves two clicks of a computer mouse, not one　, amazon lawyer lynn h. pasahow told jurors today in his initial presentation. amazon, which reported $19.2 billion in sales last year, is also accused in the 2006 lawsuit of infringing two cordance patents for customer feedback on the internet. reed “came up with these inventions” and “amazon chose to use his ideas” and “make billions of dollars,” cordance lawyer michael a. albert told u.s. magistrate judge mary pat thynge yesterday in his opening statement. albert said the one　-click system has generated $80 billion in sales for amazon since 1999. he said reed described his idea as early as 1993, while amazon launched its one　-click system in 1997. one　-click credit pasahow countered that in a x-document before the patents were awarded, cordance “credited the discovery of one　-click not to reed but to amazon.” in counterclaims, amazon is asking for a ruling that cordance’s patents, awarded since 1999, are invalid in part because the purported inventions aren’t new and shouldn’t have been recognized by the u.s. patent and trademark office. in another case, amazon sued barnes & noble.com in 1999 in california contending it infringed amazon’s patented one　-click technology. the companies settled that suit on undisclosed terms three years later. amazon.com fell 98 cents, or 1.1 percent, to $86.46 in nasdaq stock market trading at 12:32 p.m. new york time. the shares have risen 69 percent this year. the case is cordance corp. v. amazon.com inc., 06cv491, u.s. district court, district of delaware (wilmington). to see the patents, click: 6,757,710; 6,088,717; and 5,862,325. to contact the reporter on this story: phil milford in wilmington, delaware at pmilford@bloomberg.net. last updated: august 4, 2009 12:40 edt