> Amazon's 1-click checkout For a long time, software patenting law was famously lax. You could basically patent anything software-related if you knew the righ

> Amazon's 1-click checkout For a long time, software patenting law was famously lax. You could basically patent anything software-related if you knew the right legalese. The situation has apparently gotten better after a 2014 SCOTUS ruling, but in the '90s and '00s it was pretty dire. https://www.eff.org/issues/stupid-patent-month https://www.eff.org/issues/stupid-patent-month https://www.infoworld.com/article/2608772/the-battle-against-stupid-software-patents-is-on.html https://www.infoworld.com/article/2608772/the-battle-against...