Amazon Releases 1-Click Patent Sequel

theodp writes "Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is seeking a patent for coordinating the delivery of a gift. The invention was bundled with the 1-Click claims in this 1998 EPO filing, but its USPTO filing was allowed to lapse. Amazon refiled with the USPTO in July, 2002--a few months after settling the BN 1-Click lawsuit." Update: 12/13 05:35 GMT by T : Ben Silverman writes "Please note that Shel Kaphan is no longer the CTO of Amazon.com and has not been with the company for over three years. I apologize for any inconvience this has caused Mr. Kaphan and to readers for the error. Mr. Kaphan pointed out my error in an email this evening." (Kaphan is identified as CTO in the linked NY Post story.)

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Benjamin Franklin on patents

[msheppard]

Just read this last night in Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, and it really sums up my attitude:

"As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."

This was after being offered a patent on the Franklin Stove. He basically gave the technology away. Same with the lightning rod.

M@

You're damn right I'm a liberal

[Daniel Dvorkin]

I agree with the parent post entirely, but I've got to comment on this line:

derisively and indescriminately labelled liberal because we disagree with SOME extreme right rhetoric

You say that like it's a bad thing. Well, okay, the "derisively" part is, but as for the rest of it ... label me a liberal all you want. It's a label I'll happily accept. Until Daddy Bush turned it into a dirty word in the 1988 campaign, "liberal" was a badge of honor in American history.

Thomas Jefferson was a liberal. Abraham Lincoln was a liberal. Both Roosevelts were liberals. JFK was a liberal. Bill Clinton -- that's right, the President whose term gave us the longest stretch of peace and prosperity in recent history -- was a liberal. And it's not just Presidents. Benjamin Franklin. Frederick Douglass. Martin Luther King.

I think I'm in pretty good company.

It's time to take back the word "liberal," to make it a term of pride instead of shame. Liberalism is the greatest force for improving the human condition the world has ever known. Conservatism is one of the greatest forces for dragging it down into the much where it's been for most of human history. Which label would you rather wear?

BOYCOTTS do little for Patent Reform

[JohnDenver]

Want to do something better than writing a letter to your representatives, or boycotting Amazon?

1. LEARN as much as you can about the patent system. Learn how to read patent abstracts, how to file a patent, and how patents are processesed.
2. LEARN about as many bogus claims as you can. LEARN EXACTLY why they are bogus.
3. EXPLAIN it to as many people as you can, as economical as you can, without putting them off...
4. Explain it to someone who can explain it back better than you can.
5. Learn how to explain it so well, that person whom you explained it to will want to explain it to someone else as good as you explained it to them.
6. Explain it to Slashdot

...AND ALWAYS...

6. Explain the TRUTH, not misconceptions and misinformation littered with fallicies.

MOST OF ALL: Do what this post is trying to do. Try to encourage as many people as you can to learn about the causes they care about, rather than just shouting opinions.

You didn't honestly think that people care about your opinions more than thiers?