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Bezos Seeks Amazon Honor System-Related Patents

Posted by Hemos on from the ebay-comes-a-shaking dept.

theodp writes "When Amazon's Honor System debuted, some questioned if Amazon would try to patent it. More than 18 months later, the USPTO has provided the answer with the 8-29 publication of patent applications 20020120568 ("User-to-user payment service with payee-specific pay pages") and 20020120567 ("Hosted services for collecting payments from and providing personalized content to web site visitors"). Both list Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as an inventor and use the Amazon Honor System to illustrate a commercial implementation of the inventions." Hmm...wouldn't eBay's point system be prior art in this situation?

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  1. Re:Prior Art by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Do you even bother to *TRY* the links you try and sucker people into clicking? This one DOESNT WORK. People have peen posting it for days, and it doesn't work. All you get is AOLs 404, and you can plainly see the attempted redirection to goatse.cx

    get a fucking brain cell!

  2. Re:I claim a patent... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    "(and if you mod me down, I just might get a trademark on the Slashdot cheesy patent logo. Muhahaha!)"


    You, sir, are an idiot.

  3. fp (40th post) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Song 13 on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

    I read the news today oh boy
    About a lucky man who made the grade
    And though the news was rather sad
    Well I just had to laugh
    I saw the photograph.

    He blew his mind out in a car
    He didn't notice that the lights had changed
    A crowd of people stood and stared
    They'd seen his face before
    Nobody was really sure
    If he was from the House of Lords.

    I saw a film today oh boy
    The English Army had just won the war
    A crowd of people turned away
    but I just had to look
    Having read the book.
    I'd love to turn you on

    Woke up, fell out of bed
    Dragged a comb across my head
    Found my way downstairs and drank a cup,
    And looking up I noticed I was late.
    Found my coat and grabbed my hat
    Made the bus in seconds flat
    Found my way upstairs and had a smoke,
    Somebody spoke and I went into a dream

    I read the news today oh boy
    Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
    And though the holes were rather small
    They had to count them all
    Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
    I'd love to turn you on

    (Lennon/McCartney)

  4. Re:Prior Art by stud9920 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually, I am not really sure there's much more shame in being caught on goatse.cx than in being caught on www.aol.com

  5. better title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Should have read "Bozo Seeks Amazon Honor System-Related Patents"