Here, I'l save you all a bunch of reading and time, plus some pop-ups...

"...U.S. District Judge Jerome B. Friedman is allowing Woolston to press ahead with claims involving his later patents that involve selling fixed-price items and having an integrated payment processor"

This reminds me of the Apple vs Microsoft mouse patent fight. Maybe someone missed it when they didn't patent the keyboard.

Although it isn't mentioned in this article, I thought that someone was suing eBay for the "buy it now" feature.

If this guy wins, I'd be surprised. He's granted a pantent on a concept, which if eBay has any sense, can claim they have improved, and their version is protected.

If he wins, with "selling fixed price items" I'm going to patent the Return Key on browsers, or maybe the eject botton for CDs?