Amazon & Barnes and Noble Settle One-Click Dispute

rtphokie writes: "C|Net is reporting that Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com have settled the over 2 year old lawsuit over the expedited ordering process known as '1-Click' ordering on Amazon's site and 'Express Checkout' on Barnes and Noble's. Details of the settlement are (of course) unavailable."

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Details of the settlement are unavailable

[Semi_War]

The suit set off a firestorm of protest on the Net, with many charging that the 1-Click technology was not innovative enough to warrant a patent. The suit also touched off a larger debate over Internet-related patents.

I would be interested in discovering exactly how they settled this. A pattent on the 1-click technology should never been issued in the first place. In my opinion a lot of Internet technologies were pattented, look at an earlier /. article and have a good laugh:
Slashdot infringing on Microsoft patent #US5819032
quote: a computer having a communications port coupled to a back channel to the publisher, a processor, and a display; like a browser connecting to a web server

stock holders, etc.

[Alien54]

The Barnes and Noble corporate site doesn't have a press release yet. For that matter, neither does Amazon, although I would expect someone to say something, if for no other reason than they are both publicly traded, and it will be difficult to keep things completely under wraps.

After all, this is something that involves huge amounts of money. and investors/owners will want to know some details.

Not really

[autopr0n]

Well, according to Bezos, the suit against B&N was just in retaliation for B&N suing them for calling themselves "The worlds biggest book store" (Since they wern't a 'real' store. the suit was for false advertizing)

Bezos has prettymuch said that they would only use patents in a defensive manner, although I'm sure they're happy to license it out to people.