> I fail to see how any of this is novel. [..] this whole thing seems suspicious. It would be suspicious if it wasn't granted, as it would mean the patent offi

> I fail to see how any of this is novel. [..] this whole thing seems suspicious. It would be suspicious if it wasn't granted, as it would mean the patent office is unusually hostile to the claimant. Granting junk patents is par for the course, and the patent office is a bad joke, the 1-click patent [1] is just one of countless examples [2]. The most obvious thing in the world is "novel" to them if they can't find a patent (they only bother looking at patents) for it in their cursory prior-art search. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click - patents the what, not the how. Equivalent to getting a patent on "machine that flies", and then suing anyone that actually went through the trouble of figuring out aerodynamics, or hot air balloons, or rockets. [2] https://wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org/wiki/Example_software_patents https://wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org/wiki/Example_software_pa...