Wine.com’s patent troll lawsuit a potential problem for rest of industry

September 17, 2015

By virtue of having been around since the early days of Internet wine sales, Wine.com, Inc. has faced year after year of travails. It made huge progress back in April of this year when a Delaware chancery court approved Wine.com’s efforts to clean up all the shares, options, warrants and other financial instruments that had […]

Wine.com, patent trolls + Merger Scoreboard: Wonderful, Papillon, WineDirect, Amazon, Swanson VWE

September 16, 2015

First off, let’s start with where my sources and I were right only 1.2 times out of 3. Back on August 26 I reported three rumors about potential transactions. (Wine Mergers & Acquisitions Heat Up). While I did caution that I had not been able to formally confirm these, I still hate to be wrong. […]