I'm not an IP expert, but I think there's a SERIOUS problem here, and it's called "the US patent office." Patents should be issued for real INNOVATIONS that a 6

I'm not an IP expert, but I think there's a SERIOUS problem here, and it's called "the US patent office." Patents should be issued for real INNOVATIONS that a 6th grader can't come up with in 10 seconds. Yahoo now has a patent for human-assisted rankings? Wow. What does this mean for sites like mahalo.com? Amazon was issued a patent for one-click ordering system [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click] allowing a user to use a predefined address and credit card number to purchase one or more items. Seriously!? Cendant has a patent (& sued Amazon over it) for a "System and Method for Providing Recommendation of Goods or Services Based on Recorded Purchasing History"... What's next? http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29130 http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29130