One Click Setback for Amazon

dbrutus writes "Amazon lost its bid to continue a preliminary injunction against BarnesandNoble.com. You can find a press release to give you all the details."

Comments

Deja Vu

[Masem]

Boy, this sounds familar.

(Note to editors, if there is a date in a press release from a submission, and if that date is more than a few days old, it's a good chance the story's been posted already, particularly in this case. But of course, this assumes that editors read the articles that are submitted).

Praise the law

[Rogerborg]

It's a sad state of affairs when we're surprised that a court comes down on the side of of common sense. That said, this is a nice preliminary finding, and we can but hope that the rest of the case proceeds in a similarly reasonable manner (whatever the result).

In particular, I like the part about patents being distinguished by technique and not application, so you don't necessarily get a new patent just for writing down some existing art and pencilling "...but on a web page" on the end.

Is the US legal system in danger of finally getting a clue, do we think? ;)