Trademarks: Who Copyrights: What Patents: How Many do not realize that utility patents generally protect how something is done, not what was done. Inventors wi

Trademarks: Who Copyrights: What Patents: How Many do not realize that utility patents generally protect how something is done, not what was done. Inventors will often say, we can't patent that because someone else does that thing already. But it is the "how" that matters not the "what." For example, even though the paper mention Amazon's one-click patent, there are probably 100's of other shopping cart patents that claim different methods of making an ecommerce shopping cart work.