"I'm not sure why this is mentioned, it's hardly a drain on other retailers to have a second click in their process." Much research shows that many people will

"I'm not sure why this is mentioned, it's hardly a drain on other retailers to have a second click in their process." Much research shows that many people will leave one site for another for the tiniest delay or inconvenience. They've long competed on this. Why do you think Amazon patented saving a click or two in the first place? Also, patents like this force most sites to be inconvenient for customers to avoid getting sued. Increasing patents like this increases odds that a site owner is sued for their optimizations. Also, patents don't allow for independent creation like copyright does. Every patent takes that method away from everyone else for 20 years even when they independently invented it. I dont like patents at all. Even if we have a system, we shouldn't allow patents for software because they're only a hindrance to most software developers. We virtually never use or benefit from them. People who such money from developers using patents rarely contributed anything of value. Usually just filed a piece of paper.