Here We Go Again Department--AT&T Sues eBay for Patent Infringement.

How vague is this patent? According to this AP article on Yahoo News [Dana Baggett],

"AT&T's suit demands that eBay pay an undisclosed amount in licensing fees because its lucrative PayPal division functions as a 'trusted intermediary' between buyers and sellers who may not know each other."

Let's see, I give my spouse, a trusted intermediary, $5 to buy me a couple of beers at the local 7-11 where I may not know the clerk and let her keep the change as a fee--AT&T is going to sue my wife for a license fee claiming patent infringement. This is absolutely bizarre.