charlie jackson headquarters san diego california usa website www.volleyhut.com volleyhut.com is an online retailer of volleyball products . in 2000 volleyhut was among several companies that protested strongly against amazon.com s patent relating to affiliate programs . company owner charlie jackson challenged amazon.com saying i have a small e commerce site volleyhut.com that sells volleyball equipment . i have an affiliate relationship with volleycentral.com . i will continue to maintain the affiliate program despite your patent . the reason is that i know you will not try to actually stop me because your patent will not hold up in court if i decide to fight it which i would . so now you have been notified that someone is violating your patent . what are you going to do about it 1 amazon.com took no action against volleyhut . established in 1999 volleyhut is based in poway california and owned by charlie jackson . 2 jackson was an early macintosh software publisher who founded silicon beach software and co founded futurewave software which created the original version of what is now adobe flash . volleyhut established the beach volleyball junior olympics as a stand alone event hosting it in 1999 in san diego . 1 previously the beach volleyball junior olympics had been held in conjunction with a pro beach volleyball event . from 2000 to 2007 volleyhut has also assisted u.s. women players by sponsoring a team in the under 20 international tournament held each year in sibillini italy . 2 3 references edit talking patents kovach lisa 2004 08 16 . e commerce based firms finding web of support shoppers can locate numerous specialty sporting goods stores on the internet . san diego business journal . retrieved 2009 11 25 . dead link external links edit volleyhut.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title volleyhut.com & oldid 743675448 categories companies based in san diegoprivately held companies based in californiaonline retailers of the united statessporting goods retailers of the united statesvolleyball in the united statesretail companies established in 1999hidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 17 37 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view