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USPTO Rejects Amazon's One-Click Patent
- apgwoz 19y agoThank god. That was the stupidest patent ever.
- DocSavage 19y agoHere's the patent: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazonpatent.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazonpatent.html It's great that they got rid of most of the claims, but it looks like independent claims 6 and 9 still broadly cover a client/server approach to one-click shopping carts. Can any IP lawyers in the house comment on the ramifications of losing the method claims?
- falsestprophet 19y agoHow does this pass the non-obvious test? I'm not that smart (or even a true expert in the field) and even I can immediately tell how to implement the system.
- rms 19y agoThere are lots of patents for things that are obvious to someone that is an expert in the field. Biotech is just as bad. I hope the recent patent reform makes something of a difference.
- rms 19y agoDo they get to keep all the money they collected as royalties?
- nickb 19y agoUnless the contract says otherwise, yep. But I doubt they'll be able to keep on charging current licensees (like Apple for example)...
- neilc 19y agoI'm surprised that companies like Apple, with sizeable legal departments, didn't bother to do the research necessary to get the patent thrown out. Sure, I can see that they might pay royalties in the short term for the sake of expediency, but I wonder why they didn't also investigate getting the patent re-examined themselves...
- dcurtis 19y agoI have a feeling that it would be a very bad idea for Apple to piss off Amazon in that way.